Let’s face it, the internet is rife with abuse from the spam in your inbox to the DDOS attacks that hit site after site. Owning quite a lot of sites I run into abuse far more often then I would like to.
Spam is a major problem, I pay for spam filtering on my inbox, I use Akismit on all my blogs (I have 18 comments caught by the system sitting on this blog right now) and I use Bad Behaviour on all my wikis as all are massive spam targets. Plus most of the forums I run get hit my spam posts regularly too.
Forum abuse has been common in the past too. I’ve had a few forums that have just been mauled by assholes including United Nerds, Fallen Nation, probably Audio Senate at one point and several times Buffy Talk has been hit.
I have mixed feelings about it. At the end of the day, there is nothing you can really do. Sure you can block them from the site but they can get a new user account, a new email address or a new IP address, it won’t really stop them. It does really annoy me but I’m as of the recent abuse on BT I’m going for a different attitude. It’s just part of the job of running a website and you just have to get on with it.
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