Not to try and steal this thread, I just did not feel like making a thread to ask this.

We have 1980 members on this forum, However since I been here I can very well count my fingers to the number of active users. The rest cant be spam can it? How come there is not more post?

I started a thread to address this question.

Here's the link:

http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=1113.msg4750

I realize he meant no harm, however SPAM is SPAM.

Gravell....I hear what you are saying and by definition, spam is spam, however I think intent has to be considered a bit too. I don't necessarily excuse what jose did, but as I said above, I don't condem it that much either.

There are several people on this forum who either have or do promote their services one way or another. I don't need to mention them by name, anyone who reads the threads on a regular basis knows them.

When Drew said (some weeks ago) that he didn't have a problem with a link being in someone's signature line, I accept that as sort of a bottom line on the spam definition. It certainly isn't as obnoxious or obvious as having the link in each and every post; it doesn't jump out at us as obviously.

Another poster hardly does any promoting any more as he did in the earlier days.

Perhaps more importantly (to me at least) the folks being highlighted in this post ALSO have meaningful things to say about the auction buying (and goods selling) experience.  THIS may be "fine-lining" what SPAM is, but that's my point.
There may be some leeway in looking at SPAM.

Regular readers here know I will knock and label spam when I see it, but I'm open to looking at what truly is spam as well.

On a somewhat related note, this forum is very lenient on thread hijacking. I've belonged to forums where if a poster started going in a different direction in a thread, some of the moderators came down hard on that poster. I think the leniency here is much better but like you (gravell) I would have a hard time with the lines being loosened too much on spam.

Long response, but hope some "meat" in it for all of us.

Ironman makes several good points and I would only add this:

I don't believe it would be in anyone's interest to lie about Bin Laden's death. That is, I don't believe the government (whether they were democrats or republicans) would say he was dead if he was alive.

The reason I say this is that IF he was captured alive and they said he was killed, there would be HELL to pay if (when) it later came out that they had been questioning him and had LIED about his death. If you lied about something like that, what ELSE would you lie about.

I think it's probably better to have him dead than alive because if he was captured alive we would all (especially the relatives of those killed on 9/11) have to go through the agony of seeing this criminal go through the process of a trial.
In my opinion he had his trial in that 40 minute raid and those seconds of finality when our guys took him down.

While we as a people can't really condone going in and taking out some one like Libya's leader, it's nice to know we do have the guts to go into Pakistan and take out Bin Laden. No kid gloves here when not letting Pakistan know we were coming...no doubt in my mind they would have let him know. Good job guys!

There are several threads about both shows and a couple of interesting points in each one.

More than one thread has had someone who talked to a show "associate" and the indication was that the auction was held first, then they went back and recreated it for the cameras. The same guys would have won each time, but still....bending it right there instead of shooting it as it happened. I don't remember which of the two shows that was...maybe both.

Dave and Jarrod both have stores and they represent the opposite ends from a dollar standpoint. Darrel appears to have been doing it for some years. I saw one thread somewhere (not here) where someone seemed to actually know D and son; said the son was a drug addict at one time. By the way, Dave did a 30 day community service at Goodwill for some violation...could have been bad driving or almost anything; they showed that in a recent episode as he took some clothes to Goodwill and mentioned it himself.

Barry is there for color I'm sure. He loses on a regular basis. We don't know if these guys get paid or not or if the price they pay for the lkrs is provided by the show's producers.

Yes, the same four guys are there, and that's just a convention of the show. People (IMHO) want familiarity and they want to love or hate a character on a regular basis...we need to get to know the  guys and we can only do that if they are always there.

What we do know is the shows are successful and will be around for a while yet.

Good locker!

Almost a true Auction Hunter locker. LOL Just kidding!

Nope, to be an Auction Hunter the motorcycle would have to be in RESTORED condition. I wouldn't mind getting one of those,
but didn't happen today.  Also, the tackle box would have to have had 20 vintage lures, the love seat would have to have been from the 1850s with Mark Twain's name carved in the wood.

Nope, no lures worth putting on eBay. But it's always fun (for a moment anyway) popping open ANY box hoping for the best Cracker Jack prize ever !  

The red and black wool jacket is a Pendleton...too bad it's not winter!

Got a 10 x 15 today for $300 and I think it will turn out OK.