Quote Originally Posted by Charlie Stallings View Post
and si i see where your coming from man, but at the same time not everyone that post should have to state hey im not doing anything illegal .... cause people shouldnt be doing anything that will violate the tos anyways
A shocking amount of people do illegal things or violate terms, and several people attempt to get help with it here - and understandably we don't like helping with things like that.

The vast majority of topics are unlikely to violate terms but subjects like this one frequently do (often accidentally), so it is only sensible for the people asking for help to make it clear that they aren't doing that, and if they don't for other people to check.

If you are doing an activity that is close to the limits (like this one), then it is best to make your intentions clear - if you don't (like in this case, where we didn't even know you weren't doing "rapid fire" until post #6) then it is very easy to assume that you either haven't bothered to check the terms, or you are intentionally doing something wrong. While only dilettante posted something that showed concerns, many other people thought it but avoided the "politics" by simply leaving the thread.

It is your choice to do something which is in an area where terms are highly likely to be violated, so on some level it is your choice to put the question in peoples minds. A little extra effort on your part to clarify the situation (especially after being prompted in post #3) would have eliminated the question, and therefore reduced/eliminated the hassle, and it would stop people from avoiding helping with your thread.

We don't know you personally and we aren't mind readers, so we can't tell what your code is going to do unless you tell us. Clarifying it takes a small amount of effort, but it is for your own benefit (even when terms etc aren't involved).