Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-1940096-20130303063736/@comment-3987368-20130303095136

Miskos3 wrote: Why even create a new rule. This perfectly falls under the 'no spam' rule, just slightly alter its explanation and it's done :o

Besides, even without a new rule a moderator should be able to take action against anything that hurts the chat, no? If I was spamming links, you told me to stop and I still continued, then I do not see a single reason not to ban me, because I clearly didn't listen to the moderator's reasonable request.

We've had some people who often oppose moderator decisions about behavior on the grounds that "it's not in the rules" and have gone whining about it, creating a real headache. As to the rule about spam, I agree that it should've already implied links so I think this was a decision to expand it, though I'm not sure since I wasn't there from when this started.