>>17248020A handful of mentally-ill shut-ins are allowed to samefag and spam all day long, because it increases site traffic and allows banner ads to sell for more money. When there's flags and IP counters, advertisers can independently verify that there may be fuckery going on and adjust their buys accordingly, when there's nothing to slow down spammers, advertisers have to rely completely on the word of whoever is charging them
This board will only get flags/IP when the admins are convinced that traffic will increase significantly, enough to make up for the samefag shortfall. Until then, shutting down spammers is just taking money out of their own pockets.