Atomic Shrimp
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None of my business, really, but are spam posts usually deleted completely, or are they moved into a hidden forum?
Reason I ask is this: if they're moved to a forum hidden from users, but that forum isn't prohibited for search engine spiders, the spam posts could still be achieving the spammer's goal of creating multiple inbound links (I understand people do this to promote their site's ranking - the more inbound links the Google spider can find, the higher it will promote the thing in the page ranking).
Reason I ask is this: if they're moved to a forum hidden from users, but that forum isn't prohibited for search engine spiders, the spam posts could still be achieving the spammer's goal of creating multiple inbound links (I understand people do this to promote their site's ranking - the more inbound links the Google spider can find, the higher it will promote the thing in the page ranking).