Spam

Spam, as a noun in Tibia, can refer to messages which are:
 * Chat-spam: Posted repetitively on a public chat channel. These can be avoided by closing the channel or ignoring the player posting the spam.
 * Street-spam: Repetitively spoken by a player on the same screen as you. This most often occurs in the streets of Rookgaard.  Outside of Rook, the prevalence of street-spam varies greatly from one Game World to the next, but in many worlds, this is also common in Thais and Carlin.
 * Battle-spam: Posting lengthy nonsensical combinations of letters, numbers, and or symbols during a player vs. player combat situation, in an effort to impair the vision of other players. Messages of this type are often previously hotkeyed and meet the maximum message length limit of 255.
 * Forum-spam: Posting nonsensical messages on the Tibia Forum message boards. Motives for this include:
 * Venting one's frustration,
 * Attempting to earn a ban (on a hacked or otherwise compromised account),
 * Subtly hiding other (perhaps incriminating) message threads by pushing them off the first page of a message board where they will be less likely to be seen.
 * Link-spam: Posting URLs (addresses of sites) in any of the above settings. CipSoft strongly advises against visiting any sites recommended to you by another player due to the possibility that your account may be hacked.  Be especially afraid if the player posting the URL...
 * Is only level 2 (and has most likely just killed 20 rats just to achieve the minimum level for posting messages on a public channel).
 * Promises things like free items or free premium accounts.