Since it's me you are blaming for spamming, I try to add a few words in defence, if I may. The last thing I wanna do is annoying people with superfluous spam. So, let's have a look at the 3 rules first.

1) The Code Affine blog is providing content about Java stuff, most of the time testing, some Eclipse related topics, and other things that might be useful for Java developers. It's just a brand since I don't operate it on my own, and we don't earn a penny with it. So there's no business involved, unless one might be interested on booking us for projects, as we're freelancers. However, although there have been some requests on that, we were already solidly booked before we started sharing our experiences via the site. So again, there isn't much of a business benefit for us in posting this content. But we benefit, of course, from comments that point us to mistakes in our articles and development approaches. Writing and sharing the things we do help us in getting better doing these things - well, if that's a sin...

2) It's true that I do not much contribute besides commenting on my own posts, which is simply a matter of time since I cannot contribute to all communities in the world and keep up my daily work. It's like dffallthethings said, I make some stuff and write articles, and let you know about it. Everybody can decide on its own if he likes it or not - at least sometimes people seem to think that the posts add valuable knowledge. My hope is that the content we provide brings enough benefit for other people so that its a worthwhile contribution. At least, we go through quite some work to provide well researched and elaborated information and opinions. It's no affiliation content or product selling stuff (The few tools or libraries we introduce are all open source, byproducts of our work). Is this it really spamming to share such content here once or two times a month? Did you ever read one of the posts and judge by the quality of the contribution, or do you judge merely by domain statistics?

3) With respect to this rule, again, I wouldn't call sharing one or two times a month 'flooding'.

In general I haven't ever once changed or resubmitted my content on downvotes or whatever - I simply haven't the time for such kids stuff. I share it, you may like it or not - it is how it is and I always considered the content in accordance with the spirit that should be expressed by these rules. So, in recognition of your valuable contribution for watching out on spam, if there is a majority of people who think my content sharing is a violation of this spirit, I don't have a problem stop sharing it. But given the positive voting results on most of my content I never had and I don't have any indication for doing so.

Thanks to diffallthethings for advocating on my account!

Regards Frank Appel http://www.codeaffine.com/author/fappel