Next time someone tells me I’m nitpicking when I say that the official rules don’t mention spam at all, I’ll point them to this.
There are reasons why I try to be precise when discussing these things, and this right here is one of them: the people who complain about “unclear rules” the loudest are often the same people who redefine words to suit their point.
This is why it’s important to realize that the rules don’t talk about spam. What the vast majority of players calls “foundation spam” falls under the following rule segment of the rules:
The only thing that matters are the rules, not your own personal interpretation of what should be called “spam”.
No, you aren’t. You won’t find anything in the rules that prohibits decorative buildings.
At this point in the discussion, everyone understands this except people who don’t want to.