TallTroll - 3:16 pm on Mar 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

>> posting their nick and IP address in a special part of the forum

2 problems. 1) Throwaway nicks. Ask a domain spammer, you don't worry about long-term viability, quantity counts. Get some posts up, 95% go down, you still make on the 5%. Your nicks get spotted and banned, create some more. Some go about 5 posts before dropping, some develop over months into valued members before dropping. You can even use your long-termers to rat on the throwaways

2) genuine errors. Sometimes you post without thinking. I've done it myself a couple of times. I got one particularly well-concieved spam mail, and posted a link to their site. I got rightly slapped for it

It would have been quite off-putting to have been put up in the "Hall of Shame" for an unthinking slip like that