Oh, that was just me trying to be funny. I do that regularly. I don't do it to spam, and I rarely do it on its own; it's just my posting style and how I post. Besides, if you think about it, that's the kind of joke that would have made no sense being sent as a VM.
It actually surprises me some of the things that get deleted around here (I have already abandoned the New Members forum - or whatever it's called now - because my way of welcoming members was not considered "proper" or somethink with my greetings being hard-deleted). It almost seems my friendly posting style isn't a match for this community, which has come across as being "all business, all the time, don't be yourself" in several places already. Which is a shame. While I'm not one to tell people how to do their job, I've been around different communities since 2001 (Poké and otherwise, mostly otherwise) and have always seen a little off-topic discussion doesn't kill a thread (if anything, it provides a little humour or a chance for members to get a better feeling of who a person is outside of "business"); too much can, of course, murder it. I actually laughed at Ash's reply to the "tests Monday" post; it was a chance to be not serious and have a little fun. What's wrong with that? Heck, one hockey forum I've joined is all about the one-liners; threads tend to stay on topic or get back on topic quickly, and I've never seen posts deleted (that I know of, I'm sure true spammers - "Hey, have I got a deal for you" types - vanish quickly or simply get ridiculed).
There's a butter zone to aim for with something like that; just killing the first off-topic post and any replies to it is not the way I'd go, and I think it's easier to lose members that way. Not saying any of the members in this case will do that, and again not trying to tell anyone how to do a moderating job (and yes, I was once a moderator at two communities, though a few years or so ago, so I can see why one would think I'm barking orders), but hopefully you catch my drift here as to how unwelcoming this deleting posts business can actually be, even to veteran members (I still don't think I qualify as that designation either LMAO). Again, I forget what alienhunter's post was about, but I also didn't know it would have been deleted, so I was trying to be light-hearted in replying to it; being classified as a spammer actually does hurt.