Discussion over moderation of spam (moved)

[Aemilius Paulus]

so what was the forum like before the "mass spamming" came. was everthing "enlightened conversation" and what are those statistics about??

If you want to see how it was like before the spamming, you should just check the early history of this forum by going back to the erliest threads. For me, this forum has 240 pages. You might have different settings on, but this forums is still pretty sizable. Beleive me, [bovi[/B] is right. I have seen that trend myself as I was reading the past threads, starting from threads #1. I have actually seen threads whose only purpose was spam and nothing else. Most of the threads during that "middle phase" degenerated into spam, and I have even seen the EB team members join the spamfest

Check this thread out:https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=93993. The thread starts out badly disguised as spam, but eventually, the people participating in it simply post SPAM in all caps and various fonts just for the sake of spam and increasing the number of posts they have. Even Tellos Athenaios and bovi participated in spamming.

Or this: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=56169

As for those statistics, I believe they came from the "Pictures of Steppe Warriors" thread: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=109741, that came very close to being locked. The moderators of this forum are actually pretty nice as moderators go. They allow so many things that they could have just locked.