Mumsnet deleting complete threads when spammers appear

[1ris]

Spammers please fuck off. You must think we were all born yesterday. Your posts stand out a mile. You must be such bad business people that you desperately need to spam our site.

Mumsnet why are you deleting the whole thread rather than just the spamming losers?

[1ris]

It's wrong to delete the whole thread as there is always good information on them. The spammers should realise that this is completely putting people off using their websites - it's having the opposite effect of what they want because we are so pissed off at them.

[wowfudge]

It isn't wrong to delete the whole thread when the spammer has copied verbatim an old, genuine opening post in order to reply with a link to their product exactly 30 minutes later, or 35 minutes later as has been the MO this week. It isn't just the reply that is spam. The spammers start threads and reply on them.

[specialsubject]

it is easy to spot when old threads all on the same subject get bumped up the list - a not-very-competent spammer is on the site.

Deleting old threads that are of limited use seems quite a good idea. However I doubt MN have the time to assess what is useful and what isn't.