One thing I didn't count on when switching to this new message board format was the relentlessness with which international spam artists try to gain membership and post their links to their nefarious scams. It's really quite stunning. Every day, I receive 5-10 requests for posting membership on this board, most of them coming from people who spend literally HOURS trying to post a spam message on the board. Even if they're successful in spending time skirting the CAPTCHA gateway and getting manually approved, their message will only spend a maximum of 6-10 hours on the site before it's removed and they're banned forever.
Seriously-- is a momentary spam posting that lasts an hour or three before they're being banned and having their post removed worth all that effort? It's really stunning to me. I'm trying to imagine what the profit margin could possibly be to warrant all that effort for such little possible return. Yet it continues, daily.
If you are a legitimate, earnest poster who has been denied membership, I apologize. There is no attempt here to limit discussion or suppress dialogue. You may send me a heads-up email at e.fivesales [at] gmail.com to let me know that you're legitimate, and I will approve you as soon as I see it.
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