[quote=@Azarthes]
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its not people doing it

its who 
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I know that's why he's doing it, but that doesn't make what he's doing okay.

If you want to be a special cool kids club enforcer than you can do so with insults or by ignoring a person.

Don't pull this rule citing shit.

The fact is there has been loads of personal "advertising" that has gone on in Spam over the years. 

Clearly there is some tolerance for non-monetary self-promotion.

The staff doesn't flex the rules to deal with specific people. If they did, there would have been a lot more idiots banned from Spam.