Originally Posted by StarkReality

It's against the GFY rules to post for postcount and sig placement only, it's against the google rules to hook up search engine optimized pages without real content, it's against to rules of social bookmarking services to create a dozen accounts and fill them with your links...the list goes on and on and on and everybody is still doing it.

Sending unsolicited mass emails IS spam and should lead to immediate termination, but if you terminate accounts for things like community profile "spam", you can terminate 90% of all webmaster accounts...although I would not have used hardcore banners in a community visited by minors.