[Drew]

I'm sorry I have to even post this up, but I just banned a spammer. He posted a thread at 12:36 selling bulk hard drives, and in the hour or so it took one of the mods to delete the thread, I see that three of you posted in the thread, one to use the ban smiley, one to use the wavey smiley, and one simply to say "in before the close." Meanwhile, someone left him a negative reputation.

Now, keep in mind that this is with one hour turnaround on the part of your mod team - most photo places don't work that fast.

Come on, guys, this ain't rocket science. If you see spam, you know the thread's going to be deleted pretty soon. Posting to yell at the guy, suggest we ban him, or (especially) saying dumb shit like "I'm just posting to sneak a post in before someone closes down this thread" isn't much better than spam itself.

Meanwhile, in that hour, not one of you hit the "report this post" button on the bottom of the screen. In fact, we haven't had a single reported post since February 17th, yet this isn't the first spammer we've had since then.

The nest time you see a spammer, if you think we need to be clued in, report the post. Don't post stupid crap just for the hell of it, it just looks stupid and, since you're not saying anything meaningful, brings you down to the level of the guy polluting our forums trying to scam a few people. Shitty? Sure. Worse than just trying to run up your post count a little? Sure, but that doesn't make that form of spam any better. We have a report post functionality for a reason. Use it.