I run a message board, on average I get 50 bots a day trying to gain membership, if allowed they would go about doing whatever they are programmed to do. In this case post on every question about their amazing new found wealth. This site is set up that there is no approval so they are on every time they try. At this point the merchant/predator knows this and just has it set to send a new one at a set point. Pathetic really.
It takes me time to go through all of them weeding out potential real people but that is preferred to having a funked up site like this.
Never in my life have I seen a site like this where the admins are so removed from the dynamics of the board. Never! I have been on huge boards! and they still make sure there are moderators on the ground that know the people and feed the information to the admins.
I used to think that this was automatic, many did, that you had X reports and your answer/post was pulled and a stock email, you are such a bad person, sent. Nope, it is humans that care so little that they appear to be machines. They seem to be more concerned with traffic than whether the complaint has merit. So if they see X number of people are upset they pull your post.
So far as traffic goes hasn't anyone else noticed the number of one hit wonders since late last year perhaps the beginning of this year? All questions that have been asked and answered before but usually created traffic. Their user names usually mirrored someone who is active, one question, poof gone. This didn't happen years ago and frankly I think they have hired people to ask these questions to gain traffic/$$$$.
And that brings me to the huge difference between this board and any other large board I belong to, this was created 100% to be a business, to make money. Sure it addressed a need but they saw the need as a commodity that could make money, they have no emotional attachment to this board.
This is as good as it gets here. I wish the advertisers would take a good hard look at this board because it doesn't make them as much money as the numbers would lead them to believe. Anyone who has been here any length of time has put adblock on their computers, the rest of the traffic isn't real.
Veruca, they don't even care enough to properly block a person! ;p
Per your what happened I don't think you get platforms at all. This one does not log IP addresses at all! It does not even have the ability to block anyone. All they do is change your email address and password so you can't log in again. That is why all the posts of "blocked" members are still visible.