Originally Posted by drgoodtrips

That's an interesting proposal. It might clear up some of the SPAM that is missed by the "post some thoughts on the linked article" rule, which was originally designed to stop SPAM-type threads. It succeeded to a degree, but obviously, SPAMers have figured out ways to circumvent it and still be within the rules.

Of course, the flip side of that is it gives the moderators a more subjective degree of power and will do nothing to quell the common theme of "you're just trying to silence my uber-important message and censor me because you're all biased moderators". And it also could serve, in practice to scuttle unpopular points of view though I, personally, would do my best to enforce the standard objectively, whether or not I liked the message of the SPAM for consideration notwithstanding.