SPAM (unnecessary posts): is unwelcome here in the Common Room, and anyone caught spamming will have their CR account manually edited by the admins so they will have to start over with their post counts. If the problem is severe, points will be lost.

"SPAM can be a lot of things: useless or pointless posts, especially anything whose sole purpose in life is to hike up your post count to get a broom, like lightning rounds. On the forum boards, campaigning for prefect, quidditch captain, etc. will be considered SPAM. SPAM will lose house points! Spam in the CR will mean a loss of manes and a reduction of post count. In some cases, your warning level will be raised as well.

One word post, multiple one word posts, simple "I agree" posts, creating new threads that ask questions that have already been answered in the Handbook, discussing your broom, your lack thereof, the arrival of your new broom, the impending arrival of a new broom, etc., etc… is all considered SPAM, but is by no means an exclusive list. If you're not contributing anything to the discussion, don't post! You may lose points for it. At the very least, you risk irking your fellow schoolmates, prefects, and professors. Remember that the boards will soon be managing 3000 registered students. Keeping the chaff (SPAM and junk) down will help ensure the grain (good discussion) doesn't get lost in the jumble. Or maybe what's there is enough…"

Also considered spam: posting in month old threads that have no relevance. Don't do this. Even if you are just catching up, don't post.

EXCEPTION: In the Zen of the Lion, spam is permitted... however all posts, spam included, MUST adhere to the Haiku form. And, of course, inappropriate language will not be tolerated under any circumstances.
EXCEPTION: In the House Elf Liberation Front (HELF) Spam that agrees with those forum rules will be allowed.