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As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

New history section for the GOF

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on: February 09, 2013, 10:25:05 AM
There have been quite a few threads about various topics of world history on the GOF. With a number of avid historians on the GOF and also a number of people not so much interested in history for whom the threads might become distracting the admins decided to create a new subsection for the GOF history threads. While there are many threads easy to identify as strictly history threads (anything refering directly to historical events without direct relevance to current events) there are also threads which are a mixture of history and current events (e.g. various threads concerning US presidents, gun control etc.). The basic rule of thumb estimate is that threads with a very current topic are better posted in the After Midnight section while this section is to be for all the threads on historical events, people, speculation etc. which are not as prominent in current discourse.
I'm looking forward to our discussion here :yes

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