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Originally Posted by pornask
Earlier this year I started a social experiment - I installed a forum script, made sure it's perfectly functional, disabled email verification and account approval and abandoned the board. I came to check on it now few months later and the forum has following stats:
Our users have posted a total of 2524 articles
We have 2864 registered users
Most users ever online was 16 on Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:22 pm
The forum - no surprise - is a spam heaven of doom, but I only invested a little time into it and to a random stranger it will look like it's alive and kicking  |
I know this is an oldish sorta post, but what was the reason for trying this? I presume you were aware that the content would end up being all spam...
I run a small support forum and also have a 'general chat' subforum - it's full of spam.
I delete the entire forum and re-add it occasionally just to clean up house, I also have a simple mod that will not hyperlink or display URLs in messages where the username has only posted once. Most of the spam posted gets no free backlinks or anchor text.