It’s interesting that there is a spam thread right above this one now, 12 hours after this one was started. I’m sure it will be “put to bed”* any minute now.
Most of it’s not particularly amusing – if it is, we’ll often leave the thread in view after removing the links. Given how infrequently that happens, you can imagine the caliber of most of it.
Just last week, I saw Hal and that incident linked to on another site by someone warning people what could happen if you leave a public machine without logging off. He’s internet famous!
My own moderating was in a MUD; several of us would fireball people’s chars before banning them, often while other admins cheered “fry his ass!”… (the admin version of fireball was big enough to fry any char)