So a good BB should disallow / block bots from profile folders. It is worse when bots are used for this. On my own forum phpBB 2.* forum I had to rewrite StarfoxTj and delete 220 000 members. That tool is inbuilt in the newer version of phpBB. Even for software it took hours since I am on a shared server for that forum. I had to delete 5 000 / 10 000 at a time. It was done while I did other tasks so not a big problem for me.
There are weaknesses in the adaptive inverted link model of the web, unless it can be adapted to punish so obvious spammers.
There is one penality that spammers will remember. Negative effects of their link manipulation attempts. I could have posted a semantic link to the story, but since som of my links was rewritten a time ago by a moderator, members that have posted here for years and contributed are treated like those who only post for links.
Note: My WPW thread is still no 1 for the term
advanced semantic linking
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