PE2K Accessible! (For Now)

[Neo Emolga]

Before it closed down, I was deleting spam and banning at least 30 bots a day....(O.O)

Back when I was a mod, there were maybe 2-3 bots a day. Pesky, but it could be managed.

However, this... I don't know what programming algorithm they used for these bots, but sheesh, it's out of control. Don't they realize that if they flood the forum with that junk and kill the community by doing that, the whole purpose of the automated advertising is lost anyway? Yeah...

I am a marketing major, and I can honestly say this is one of the most terrible ways to try and grab potential customers. It's many times worse than telemarketing, because at least with telemarketing, you can hang up the phone and go on with life. Here, the advertiser is completely vandalizing the customer's property and community with their ads, which in turn puts a very negative image on them and their advertising campaign. It's like spray-painting an ad on someone's house. So why this kind of thing still goes on, I don't know. Besides, medications are overly pushed nowadays as is...