Effects of Spam
Spam prevention and deletions measurably increase the workload of forum administrators and moderators. The amount of time and resources spent keeping a forum spam free contributes significantly to labor cost, and the skill required in the running of a public forum. Marginally profitable or smaller forums may be permanently closed by administrators.
Administrators may block the IP address of the spammer and in severe cases a whole IP range from that internet gateway provider. Thus a lack of connection from that spammer's location, and neighbors will not have those resources, information, and access to the domain, or a server which house hundreds of websites, the administrators have the option to block from an entire region. Thus the spammer interferes with their communities - family and friends - internet connections and its resources that too will be blocked from.
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