It is also said to be one half of infinity, as completed by five~

Only because I was out of commission for a couple of weeks. I'll catch up next month! :P

If spamming gave you rep, that would be true, but since it doesn't, it isn't. You only get 1 rep point for each day you post in the forums, so at best it would really only encourage one spam message a day. The majority of rep actually comes from answering questions and getting high-ranked posts.

I love the Rep System, I think it works well, discourages spamming, encourages genuinely hilarious posts/topics and shows whose who in the experience stakes.
Post counters, now they're pointless; along with Signatures eight foot high with twelve lines of text and six animated Gifs.
Give me Avatars and Rep ANY day over the horrors of usual PHP forums.

how does it encourage spamming? you can only get 1 rep per day by posting. :/

That's 1 rep too much.

have you seen threads dedicated to spam? yes you have, and what happened? those people who were spamming were down repped.
the system is fine, the only thing that's broken is the rep update page.

We get rep?

Can I ask why this thread was created in the first place? Is the fact the list got updated (and in plain sight for anyone who wants to look) of vital importance? Seriously.
Karl

+1 rep for mentioning "philosophical time" :-).
My take on this is that spamming (if we take it as making an unnecessary number of posts) goes inherently against "talking about useful stuff". If someone makes many posts, but they all (or at least their majority) have insigthful content, it's not spamming.
However, someone may spam the boards with an overflowing number of posts of varying content in the hopes that some of them will be deemed insigthful and thus be high-rated by other members.
@Karlallen
No need to be so... educative (sorry, I couldn't find a better word). I think every thread that has meaningful content has a right to exist. This thread was created by michaelleung in order to thank the GOG staff for updating the list in an ironic way (because they only did it after 3 months, although the second lists says "monthly").

No, because spam is when you bombard places with useless shit you don't care about/V!agr@ and C!@l1s, whereas useful stuff that we might find interesting is obviously not. Sure, too much is information overload, but so?

For some those spam messages are meaningful and not useless. Therefore leading to the neverending circle of spammage.
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck ...

Wolfram Alpha that shit.

You know, that was one of the first things I did with WolframAlpha.

Hmm... I did certainly have a bit of a high-horse there somewhat. My bad.
Karl