But here's something for JCM to consider:Well I guess that if this new member joins here with the sole purpose to just spam the board continuously then it would be handled as any other spammer account ...meaning they wouldn't be here very long. Remember that when it comes to a privately owned board free speech is irrelevant to what the guidelines or terms of service say someone can or can't do here.
Let's say assup starts a thread here blasting the KKK. Every day he adds another post with a new comment or link denouncing the Klan. Now let's suppose a KKK member sees this and becomes angry. He sucks at debate and always loses the argument when he attempts to defend the Klan. So he decides to retaliate by unleashing a spam-bot on the Political Forum. The spam-bot randomly bumps 10 threads a minute and can be turned on and off at will. It's almost like a hacker unleashing a "denial of service" attack on eccie's website. The Klansman says I'm not going to turn off my spam-bot unless assup stops trash-talking about the KKK. Would you, JCM, tell everyone we should all just work it out among ourselves?
There are issues of free speech and extortion involved here. And I say this as someone who much prefers and greatly appreciates the fact that this forum is lightly moderated with as few rules as necessary. Originally Posted by lustylad