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I tend to agree Mick. Spam has been going on here for a long time. I joined here in 2004 and it was rife then. I was only through carefully discussing the issues with the offenders that it generally dissolved. It comes and goes all the time.
The trouble is that you will find that everyone in the top 10 posters (and I do mean everyone) has spammed threads at one point or other. I can name one individual that spams every single day and nothing has been done about their behaviour. Or if it has why has this person not been disciplined?
Spam was originally, agreed amongst the moderating team as being allowed in the General Chat area and forbidden elsewhere. I stick by this rule as I think that it is unfair that peoples serious threads should be contaminated with nuisance posting.
I do think though complaints have been around long before you were a moderator Phil. People have been complaining about the top three spammers for a long period. The trouble is that rulings are so indescriminate and the rules are not applied evenly. For instance this weekend no spam at all while Mike is away. Yet spam is not as tightly controlled while he is here. This is one reason why Ken left. You cannot have a set of rules and ignore them yourself. It flies in the face of all how come here.
In short, something needs to be sorted.
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