Spammer alert and a bit of editorializing

It appears obvious to me that we have a spammer who has been working the site for the better part of two months promoting a single product which is mentioned in every post he has made thus far, including links to the sales site in most instances:

http://curezone.com/forums/s.asp?f=762&c=0&ob=d&m=jddavidson

Perhaps more distubingly, when I took a look at the product and what it contained it appears that it may be potentially harmful.  See:

http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1866154#i

It is hard to figure how someone can spam for that long with multiple messages without it being caught - but I have a theory that may apply:  In many forums, especially the critical News forum, the good alert button appears to be largely ignored and ratings virtually non existant (as is the case with the News forum unless the message was originally posted in a forum where the moderators are still calling attention to good and important messages for the benefit of CZ members.   Thus I would opine that many members no longer give alerts either good or bad because they feel that the alert and rating process is not working.

At one time, a very important message or a reasonably well written and researched article would result in a rating to call members attention to it.  Now, even extraordinarily well written and well researched articles get no ratings in the News and certain other forums.  That is the primary reason that I seldom post in the News forum as the primary forum anymore and probably post less than I otherwise would.

The simple fact is, in my strong opinion anyway, that many, many messages that should be rated by any standards imaginable have not been.  And, it is also my strong opinion that not calling attention to such messages is a disservice for both the readers and the contributors.

My two cents.

DQ