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Does this site get spammed much? I noticed that the "report post to moderator" page can be used to report spam, and wondered if that has to be done often.
yeah, reporting post isn't just for spam, it can be for any post that is against the rules- such as spam, double posts, explicit language/content, hateful messages etc etc.
So yeah, it does have a use, but thankfully it doesn't have to be used much for spam.
No, they're inconsiderate but clever money-grubbers. Spam apparently works: as with other forms of advertising, a small percentage of spam's viewers are stupid enough to pay attention, even to buy the garbage being advertised; and the spammers make their profit from those few viewers' money. Or the spammers want attention: that notorious Russian spamlord supposedly was in it because he wanted to be famous. (And he got what he wanted: the Russian citizenry flooded his business with threatening phone calls, published his personal info, and eventually killed him. It amuses me that a petty nuisance like spam would make people SO angry.)
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