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Interesting (and sad) to see the negatives pop up first.
To me that helping hand mentality far outweighs the occasional spammer. Geeze we get them now one or two a week.... I must have missed Matt's Asian Escorts.....!!!




You apparently assume for some reason that because you didn't see the spam, or Matt's Asian escorts, or the p0rn ad, that a diligent moderator didn't see it first and remove. Believe me, I spent years as an unpaid mod, having to get up early in the morning before the forum regulars got on because if I waited the forum members started messaging me complaints about all of the abusive posts that the spam bots had posted all over the forum over night. Its easy to say that for you that the spam is outweighed when you are not the one tasked with removing it and keeping the forum a pleasant experience for everyone. In the forum that I moderated, the spam attacks got so bad that we eventually had to start charging to allow people to post.

It is sad that the spammers have software that allows them to sign up as users, to fake IP addresses, and to montior responses to their posts, and to do it over thousands of forums in seconds, while a mod has to go in and individually delete posts and try to figure out a way to block the spammer.


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