First thank you everyone who has commented on my design and voted.
Second my most sincerest apologies for linking my design to my comments.

As I am fairly new here I don't know all of the protocol and since I saw other people doing it I thought it was OK. I thought to myself, that if somebody made a thoughtful heartfelt comment on my design and then linked their design to it as well in a polite way that I would not mind at all, it would feel like I was a part of the community and even be flattered. Naturally I thought others would feel the same. I was surprised and a little hurt when someone compared it to spamming!

So if it is indeed the wrong thing to do I will stop, but I was doing it with the best intentions. I am sorry.

Thank you