Dude, can't you guys even take a joke??
Is what we were doing... Having a joke. I'm sure there are plenty other places in this forum where something, although off topic, has been said, and has been funny. If you cant see the joke, you don't need to try to come down hard on people, the thread wasn't getting out of hand, and I'm sure that some people would have found it funny. Perhaps you don't enjoy the kind of humor that AlexanderMC does ( to be hones, i don't, he isn't funny, just likes to think he is) but, never the less, is he not entitled to have a joke? even if it is just him who is laughing?
As for the 'spam' issue, i was always under the impression that spam was saying the same think over and over again, but perhaps thats just come from me having played a lot of internet games.
I think that this is alltogether a grand old mix up

EDIT: On a side note, from what you said previously about giving it a push in the right direction, perhaps it was a shove, which aggravated people (maybe you should think before you post

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