The reality is that this is an open community which means its visible to anyone who navigates their way here, whether by invite, searching or chance, and while unsubscribed members only have limited viewing permissions, once a new member has gone through the registration process they will have a certain level of access to the forums & discussions.
As most of the more experienced members here will have seen many times before, here and on other forums, we will invariably attract the occasional member who joins up simply to cause disruption, whether that be to bait, troll, flame, spam or some other form of toxicity.
While obviously unwelcome, we’d be naïve to expect less.
Every member who registers has agreed to the Ironsport
terms of use which, while being boring as hell, is very clear about forum etiquette, particularly with regards to not being a D*ck towards other members.
From previous experience, most times these guys quickly realise they’re not welcome simply by the reaction of the rest of the community which rapidly loses patience which them and hopefully they just bugger off else-where, of their own accord. If not, then there are other measures which reluctantly have to get used by the team to remove them.
So, to be honest, whether anyone here (unwittingly) introduces them or not – those types will always wash-up from time to time, so my advice would be don’t lose any sleep over it mate. What will be, will be
