You ever hear of "ad bots"?? Advertisers will use bots to join a message board, or a chatroom, to sell something. It is despicable, but it goes on all the time. Of course, they are not always bots, but scumbags who resort to trespassing on a message board to sell something. They have no scruples. All they care about is $$$$.
I am not talking about the person who introduced us to KARI, that is a AI program like Hal. So that doesn't bother me, as long as the poster doesn't appear as to post to only sell his product. And as long as it is related to the forum subject.
Webmasters need to take steps to stop these advertising scumbags from joining, or ban them and remove their posts as soon as they post.
I used to go to AIM chatrooms, because I had a friend on there, but I was turned off by all the ad bots interfering with the conversations.
Advertisers are scum, because they force ads on you.
I will not buy from a message board spammer, from anyone who sends me email spam, those who put flashing or moving ads on a webpage.
I will not buy from a telemarketer, nor donate money, or change any service.
I certainly won't click on popup ads. (I rarely, if ever get those, or email spam)