Random Content can be considered spam?

[dvduval]

I have a few pages where people can receive information about resources in their area. On the same page, I have placed random posts from my forum in case they might be interested in reading what's going on in the forums. The only problem is that Google is indexing a lot of these pages, and people are searching and finding my pages, but since the content is random, they likely will not find what they are looking for. Am I an evil spammer for serving up random content? Should I consider a different approach?

[brian.mark]

Our approach has been that of "Context sensitivity". We list the most recent 5 articles and the first few lines from them that are related. That keeps it from being totally random and hopefully having what they were looking for on the page yet when G hits them. Since we update on a schedule, we have that schedule listed in the sitemap.xml as well.

Brian.

[Izzmo]

I wouldn't think it would be considered spam since it would be internally linking within your site and they would be be good quality links.