# Is that thread just spam bait?

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**Created:** [September 7, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-thread-just-spam-bait/920036 "2020-09-07T16:17:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-thread-just-spam-bait/920036/1 "2020-09-07T16:17:13Z")

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What’s the deal with [this thread?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-protect-and-clean-your-computer-from-malware/515923)  
It’s a stickied thread that starts out with an outdated post on cleaning your comp of malware from '09, and is followed by 300 posts of banned spammers.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-thread-just-spam-bait/920036/2 "2020-09-07T16:30:41Z")

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Yes, that thread has been spambait for a long time. In vBulletin we used to soft-delete those posts. However, the move to Discourse made all the old spam posts visible again, as well as the spam reports.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-thread-just-spam-bait/920036/3 "2020-09-07T17:32:31Z")

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We decided that that thread was so outdated that it wasn’t worth keeping in its present form, so I moved it to the Museum of Spam.

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**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-thread-just-spam-bait/920036/4 "2020-09-07T17:34:41Z")

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Ha!  
I didn’t realize the museum was open on a holiday!

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-thread-just-spam-bait/920036/5 "2020-09-09T13:35:50Z")

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I actually checked to see if Museum of Spam was a new SDMB forum.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-thread-just-spam-bait/920036/6 "2020-09-09T17:25:07Z")

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It’s not new. It’s just another name for The Cornfield, which is only visible to mods.