I am a spamwhacker, and can confirm that spamming gets people banned from the site. (In the sense of commercial advertisement and SEO and bot-testing preparatory to an actual spam campaign. Being merely obnoxious to others sometimes collects a personal ban from a community or specific other user, but that's not antispam's lookout. Terms of Service might not have much to say about it unless it rises to the level of harassment, and since I'm not in ToS I don't know where the lines are drawn.)

Linkblogging, as in the collection and discussion of fascinating links, is an honorable tradition and it is very hard to mistake linkblogging for spam.


In my opinion, changelog is the best place to look for confirmed development activity. The code tours in dw_dev can lag a little, but Changelog is automated. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that's visible offsite, on Github, but some projects over there have been in progress for years and there's not necessarily a clear date when they'll be ready.