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Not wanting to reinvent the wheel (for once), I convinced myself to implement phpBB forums, right off the box, hoping to save myself the trouble of writing Yet Another Forum Software. PhpBB worked beautifully, as a forum software, but became a magnet for spam, so much so that the community never had a chance to get started. Whether phpBB is just victim of its success or too lax with its security measures, I do no know, but the fact of the matter is that running a phpBB board plain doesn't work.
When I pulled the plug today, the database contained well over 300,000 spam topics & messages, for a total of 8 Gb of junk. None of it was displayed on the website, as the forum was on a strict moderation queue, so there was no point to it, but the volume was such that moderation was plain impossible.
I would like to appologize to legitimate users of the forum, who went through the trouble of registering only to find they couldn't actually post anything. It's not that I disagreed with your posts in anyway or anything of the sort. It's just that, with the tremendous volume of spam, I never got the chance to see your messages all all.
There may be another forum on your-translations.com in the future. Hopefully soon. I will do a bit more homework, or write some custom forum software, if it comes to that. Until that time, the forums are suspended. Sad, but necessary.
To those responsible for the spam, stalemate. Your attempts at self promotion failed. Not one of your 300,000 spam message was ever displayed to a potential buyer, and you never even got so much as a link. On the other hand, you managed to destroy the forum, so if that was your goal, well done. Too bad you didn't make any money spamming my pages, you could have bought yourself a cookie to celebrate.