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*you're (who's the idiot?) The thread was going well today until now.

Oh, it's definitely deliberate. It's a common spamming technique. Like I said, they've had to get more creative than just doing obvious spam posts. It happens on forums all over the internet.

Yes, exactly. But many of them are completely obvious and still here. For example: https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/pc-motherboards-manufactures-stepping-up-their-audio-game.125966/#post-1607084...

Good point. It's not very effective at all. But from their point of view, it's free advertising. And if only one out of one hundred spam post ends up in somebody clicking the link, it might be worth their effort. From my point of view, it's annoying garbage that litters forums all over...

Spammers have had to get more creative/tricky because the obvious spam gets seen and removed quickly in most forums. These techniques are more subtle and are obviously working because most people here don't seem to notice. But there are dozens and dozens of examples of this on here.

In today's posts, he changed his quoted post of himself to add the words "wholesale hdmi cables" with an embedded link in those words.

A thought suddenly occurred to me: Maybe the moderator called me an asshole and suspended me for a week because he didn't see that what I was reporting as spam was indeed spam?

Like I said, he added the words "gun rack" in the 2nd to last paragraph of the quoted post and those words have an embedded link. Here's another example of the same spamming technique: https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/got-to-love-math-she-said-yes.123400/page-2#post-1608031 He...

Here's one where he quoted a post and replied with what appears to be a normal reply, but now the quoted post has an added link embedded in it to a website that sells gun racks (link in the words "gun rack" that he added into the text of the post he quoted)...

They look ok at first glance - by design. He makes what appears to be a real post/reply with a quote, but he edits the quote to include hidden spam links. Notice how he replies to himself with a quote of his first post - and a spam link now in the quote. Other spammers here make seemingly...

Look a little closer at the posts he quotes in his replies, especially his replies to himself (which he does often).

Yea, I thought I was being helpful. The response I got was quite a surprise.

I already said that the last time I reported spam - using the very method you insist I use - I got called an asshole by a moderator and suspended for a week, presumably because I reported several spam posts in a matter of minutes. So surely you can understand why I stopped reporting them that way.

I reported it in this very thread by mentioning that particular account not just once but twice, only to see that you moderators didn't even bother to look. If that's not good enough for you, then it's obvious that Steve was right and the moderators just don't care.

The account tculverjames just posted more spam today.

The tculverjames spam posts are all within the last two months. And that's only one example of probably 50 or 100 in the last few months.

When you say banned accounts, are you actually removing the spam post or just banning the account but leaving the post visible? Because the spam posts are still right there to be seen.

It's the account for user "tculverjames," a spammer with about 15 or 20 spam posts.

Here, take a closer look at the posts from this account. Notice that he often quotes a post. Take a close look at the quoted post. He edits them to include spam links. https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/search/713179/

I don't know. They don't appear to have a "banned" designation under their user name, but I could be missing something. I still see the posts and the members listed as "audiophyte." For example...