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Originally Posted by electronjohn
Tell ya what: It's going to take a moderator quite a bit of time to tidy things up. You might consider making a donation towards site maintenance, There's a link at the top of the page under "notices."
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It really shouldn't take them a long time, though. One single account posting less than 5 things a day is perhaps the easiest form of spam to deal with there is, and on a properly moderated forum he would have been banned on day one. Obviously I am not excusing Greystroke here, but I think his ability to continue posting for so long has exposed this site as being extremely vulnerable to attack due to complete moderator absenteeism. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say a sufficiently motivated (and more actively malicious) person could bring down the whole forum or render it completely unusable in a matter of minutes.
It is extremely frustrating to me that there is a constant "please give us money" message at the top of a forum completely abandoned by its moderators, who will not transfer moderation powers to those actively volunteering to do so, and who in the first place took weeks to restore the site after it had finally been taken offline by crawler attacks (which had actually been affecting the uptime of the site for months beforehand). Apparently, they're not even bothering to cash checks people are sending in according to user teevee!! Greystroke inadvertently became a pentester for the forum, and it failed in a big way. I need to see if there is a way to locally back up this site because I don't think it's going to last much longer under current ownership.