No. I'm not talking about how much I enjoy the content of fe43's posts. I'm saying that I think that it makes CN unreadable because having to scroll through endless pages of punctuation makes it prohibitively difficult to read any other posts in that forum. Huge image files that crash my browser make CN effectively off limits to me if that's something I can expect to happen with any regularity. I'm not talking about banning something that I didn't enjoy reading.
Any posts I don't enjoy make it prohibitively difficult to read posts I do enjoy.
That's a completely asinine description of what I said. There are many, many posts in CN that I do not enjoy and that do not make it prohibitively difficult to read the other posts. I'm talking about having to scroll through endless pages of punctuation makes it prohibitively difficult to read any other posts in that forum and huge image files that crashed my browser.
If fe43 spammed every single thread in CN with nothing but chapters of books on my reading list that I was planning to purchase, I would still think that was something that ought to be prohibited, regardless of how much I enjoyed reading the material. It's not at all about my relative enjoyment of the content. It's that I don't think any user ought to be able to ruin and render useless an entire sub-forum by spamming it.
The difference is that you agree to abide by forum rules when you post. You don't agree to abide by an individual user's personal inclinations. That is why I don't care for any of these "this is annoying so it should be banned" suggestions (specifically looking at you, Saddam). Any one user of authority shouldn't be making judgments based on what personally annoys them, and that includes what they think CN should or should not be for.
I did not suggest any of these things; I'm not suggesting that any rules on this forum should be set according to my individual personal inclinations. I'm weighing in on a discussion about the rules. My justification for my opinion isn't based on what I personally enjoy, it's based on what I think one user is able to take away from the rest of the users by spamming.
I also still don't get how it's any different than any other rule on this site, all of which are governed by the preferences of Parsifal, the admins as a group, or the larger community. They're all based on preferences about how one or more people wants the site to be.
What do you mean by "a single user being allowed"? We're not prohibiting anyone else from spamming CN as well.
I'm saying that I think it's unfair for any one user (or group of users, obviously) to get to decide what CN is for for all the other users, and that to me is effectively what happens when this sort of spamming occurs.
CN was what it was. People posted lots of shit, and it was fun for at least some of the users.
Users interacted there, regardless of whatever else it is. Then one user, fe43, decided that CN was about making it as difficult as possible for any of those users to continue to post there.
This prevented those users from interacting there. I think that's not ideal.