# No visitor walls?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-visitor-walls/605112>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 5, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-visitor-walls/605112 "2011-12-05T08:06:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-visitor-walls/605112/21 "2011-12-07T21:35:28Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> It’s turned on over at Giraffeboard.

It is?

_checks_

Not only is it, I actually had a conversation on it a long time ago. Which I completely forgot about. Huh.

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**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-visitor-walls/605112/22 "2011-12-07T21:45:47Z")

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> [@elmwood](#):
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> They’re magnets for spam on forums that are otherwise well-moderated.

It hasn’t been a problem – you can report spam comments there in the same way you report posts. That said, I don’t really see the point of them. They’re on at GB because I pretty much turned everything on just to see what happened. They’re not that useful, though, IMO. vBulletin has an official blog plug-in (it costs something like $40) which would be a far better solution to letting posters network amongst themselves, if that was something the staff felt to be desirable.

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