Abuse of self-moderated topics by reflink spammers

[Morbo]

Few of my posts expressing negative attitude towards reflink spam were deleted.

I've got system private messages looking like this:

A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by the starter of a self-moderated topic. There are no rules of self-moderation, so this deletion cannot be appealed. Do not continue posting in this topic if the topic-starter has requested that you leave.

You can create a new topic if you are unsatisfied with this one. If the topic-starter is scamming, post about it in Scam Accusations.

The problem with these automated messages is that they don't even link back to the thread the deleted post belonged to, so it's not possible to quote the thread and the topic starter in abuse accusations, this isn't handy at all.

Apparently there are reflink spammers in this forum who abuse the feature of self-moderated topics to silently censor any criticism directed towards them. And this creates a very serious precedent. The lack of transparency in exposing these forum users makes the admins look like biased in favor of such slick people. Lack of very strict moderation rules is what made this forum highly popular, but lack of fairness and transparency that favors spammers with hidden agendas is what can bring this forum down. You don't want a full scale confrontation between spammers and those who dislike them to the point of being ready to burn the whole place just to eradicate the spamming defilers.

inb4 a new forum is being developed, it will have all features you need, just be patient. Please don't bring this argument, I don't believe in the whole BS about the new forum

[KWH]

A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by the starter of a self-moderated topic. There are no rules of self-moderation, so this deletion cannot be appealed. Do not continue posting in this topic if the topic-starter has requested that you leave.

You can create a new topic if you are unsatisfied with this one. If the topic-starter is scamming, post about it in Scam Accusations.

[Morbo]

A reply of yours, quoted below, was deleted by the starter of a self-moderated topic. There are no rules of self-moderation, so this deletion cannot be appealed. Do not continue posting in this topic if the topic-starter has requested that you leave.

You can create a new topic if you are unsatisfied with this one. If the topic-starter is scamming, post about it in Scam Accusations.

thank you very much, that's exactly what i did

THIS IS THAT NEW TOPIC and its purpose is to shed some light on a problem in this forum

[tysat]

If you see people creating threads to put out their referral links please report them.  The first post in a topic should never contain a referral link.

[E.exchanger]

Lol i see it all the time, when i post under people scamming in the lending section most of them or i would say 99% of them being newbies but i never give up lolzzz 

[jeppe]

I dont get it ?? How can they think that they can actually get through with it ??

[Light]

I dont get it ?? How can they think that they can actually get through with it ??

Because most people aren't smart enough/too lazy to be bothered to actually check if the thread is self-moderated and if it is check whether any responses have been deleted with malicious intent.