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Howdy, everyone!

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

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)

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Our newest user got one post before being banned. Where's the post and what did they do to get nuked so quickly?


f-22 "raptor" ace

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He posted a topic in the wrong forum but I don't think that's the reason he was banned.


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He was spammer, (or she). That's why he's banned.




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Quote from: f-22 "raptor" ace,Sep 16 2008 on  09:10 PM
He posted a topic in the wrong forum but I don't think that's the reason he was banned.
Which forum was it?


f-22 "raptor" ace

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He posted a online school topic in the general LBT forum.


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He spammed something about online schools or something, as F-22 said.  I removed his post and banned him immediately.  Spammers are not at all tolerated.


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So he/she was banned, I dind¥t know <_< .


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Spammers should not be tolerated.  Silly how they do what they do and end up getting banned from most places.


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Those links aren't to schools either.


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But their userpage says they still have one post. Does that mean deleted posts aren't subtracted from the total?


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Nope.  Not in this case anyway.

No point in continuing discussion about a spammer.