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6bc8867d | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 One could also say it excluded 1400 transactions that were willing to pay a higher fee than the 1400 that were included.
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bitbuybyte | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Indeed so. Beauty of an open protocol.
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Steve | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 For what reason were they considered spam?
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NoOne | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +6 
 Because they include extra data with hexadecimal representing jpegs, saving a lot of bom-transaction related data in the blockchain, therefore in the nodes.

Nodes have the configuration to limit this extra data, the standard configuration it 80bytes, but there is bug that this kind of transactions are exploiting, that allows them to go way way over any configuration in the node.

That bug was fixed in the Knots node software, and the standard template os configured with very low extra data limit, which is keeping transactions exploiting the bug out of the block. 

If those transactions sent inscriptions within the limit configured in the knots nodes, they would pass normally.
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Steve | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Thank you.
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NoOne | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 They just need to mine their own blocks then, nothing wrong with that. 
Whoever mined the block has the right to put the transactions he wants inside it. If money was the only incentive the transactions would be in. Glad money is not the only thing driving people’s decisions.