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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

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Flathead770

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Now that we're getting into the summer months I figured this would be a good point to give an update on where we stand.



While 2017 started off to an amazingly good start it really started to die down, consistently getting below 100 posts/month from May to October. So though it may look like 2018 isn't doing too good the months have so far seem to have a fairly stable trend and so far all 4 months have been over 2017s monthly average. I'm interested to see how things will look in the next coming months. If anyone is interested, as of the end of April we're sitting at 537 posts for the year.

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Littlefoot505

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Notice how it spiked right after I joined. Coincidence? I think not. :p

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Flathead770

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Notice how it spiked right after I joined. Coincidence? I think not. :p
Why'd you let it drop these last couple months? :lol

While you have helped a lot I think the forum changing over also brought a lot of traffic as well. I remember a couple days being up in the 20s for posts.
I haven't really been keeping track but interest in the topic comes and goes. Sovereign was one of the more dedicated posters in the later summer months. Last August was practically just Sovereign and I. After that I remember you and I going at it for while. Now it seems Leventell has picked up the mantle as of late.

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LeventeII

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It's nice to see our progress. Thanks for that!
I am confident that the average of 2018 will be better than the average of 2017. :)

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Flathead770

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I'm confident we'll beat it as well  :)littlefoot

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