There was another post, from me, criticising yours.

I objected to your assertion that Avant is "happy" (your word) to allow spam and pointed out that he has no control over the way the site operates.

So there is no point in hammering Avant and personalising the issue. I'm not surprised if he finds your posts irritatingly pointless and removes them.

Edited by FP on 28/11/2020 at 11:09

The "spam" thread I started had two more posts at the end before it was locked, the last one being from me. If you were quick enough to read this post before avant deletes it (and probably bans me) you can see them xxxx

The rest of us are not able to delete posts we don't like, avant can. He claims to be against censorship. Apparently not if comments come too close to home.

(Link deleted - almost unbelievably, the posts linked to include the spam post.)

No idea why but the site kept accepting a post before I wrote anything. Did the same a few days ago.

Edited by misar on 29/11/2020 at 09:51

The "spam" thread I started had two more posts at the end before it was locked, the last one being from me. If you were quick enough to read this post before avant deletes it (and probably bans me) you can see them xxxx

The rest of us are not able to delete posts we don't like, avant can. He claims to be against censorship. Apparently not if comments come too close to home.

(Link deleted - almost unbelievably, the posts linked to include the spam post.)

No idea why but the site kept accepting a post before I wrote anything. Did the same a few days ago.

Edited by misar on 29/11/2020 at 09:52

The "spam" thread I started had two more posts at the end before it was locked, the last one being from me. If you were quick enough to read this post before avant deletes it (and probably bans me) you can see them xxxx

The rest of us are not able to delete posts we don't like, avant can. He claims to be against censorship. Apparently not if comments come too close to home.

(Link deleted - almost unbelievably, the posts linked to include the spam post.)

An utterly ludicrous pretext to delete first my post then a link within another post.

How on earth could those links to the IMGBB website have been harmful? They simply opened PICTURES in which the spam appeared as nothing but gibberish and a website name (NOT its URL). The spammer included a URL to improve their website's Google search engine rating, not to get HJ users to visit it.

Anyway, FWIW here is the picture of my original post WITHOUT the spam post - and obviously no clickable link in the picture.

The real folly is allowing spam in at all. These days stopping spam on websites is mostly a simple, automated task. That is why you rarely see ANY on popular forums, even those with thousands of posts per day where eliminating spam solely by moderation would be a nightmare.