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This happens about once a month. You get some random slot of time when, by sheer coincidence, no ninjas are online and, by another sheer coincidence, somebody purposely posts a thread that they know breaks the rules and which should require disciplinary action. The thread stays open for a while and people realize there are no ninjas (mostly due to replies within threads saying stuff like "where are the ninjas, why don't they lock this?"). Spam threads are created and fill the Halo 3 Forum. Then, a ninja comes along, sees the mayhem, and starts handing out carnage, resulting in pages full of locked threads and bans.
As a general observation (not specifically to you, ecartman), the best way to prevent stuff like this from happening is to not respond to bad posts. First, if you don't give them the attention they crave, they go away. What's the fun in writing spam if nobody is reacting to it? Hence the reason that nobody opens up Microsoft Word and types in spam, flames, or troll posts -- they do it on forums instead.
Second, if you do not respond to bad posts and just report them instead, they quickly fall to the second page of the Halo 3 Forum, thus decreasing the likelihood that people realize that no moderators happen to be online at the time. A moderator will log in eventually and, because the thread was reported, will take any needed disciplinary actions. In the meantime, substantive quality posts remain at the top of the Halo 3 Forum and the bad posters are discouraged from continuing their wayward pracitices.
Of course, this is all theoretical, since this series of actions has never actually happened :-)
[Edited on 12.30.2007 11:17 PM PST]