I found another one tonight. This is pathetic.
Recently there have been a lot of 404's here on this site, bad incoming links. The problem is people writing the URL in a sentence, at the end of the sentence. The period is considered part of the URL by the stupid auto-linking in their software or CMS. (You'll notice I almost NEVER put a URL at the end of a sentence, for this very reason.)
Anyway, I was looking up the word "period" on the mod_rewrite forum. This is what I got for results:
modrewrite-periods.jpg
... that's not the kind of "period" I'm interest in researching.
I used to use the ModRewrite forums quite a bit back in 2008, when I was learning htaccess and mod_rewrite more in depth.
It has been abandoned for almost a month now, with more than 15,000 new spam threads in the one forum you're able to make new posts in. Many more threads have replies (including the older tech threads), often with hardcore porn images.
The last reply to one thread I was looking at had a very graphic BJ photo in it.
If you're going to go on vacation for a month, take a laptop, close the forum, or least somebody else in charge. Unless the admin is dead, there's no excuse for this.
Not to mention phpBB is one of the most spammed forum codebases around. Using phpBB requires either a very active admin/mod presence, or a deep love of spam. Use SMF, vBulletin ... pretty much anything else, to be honest.
So much for that site. Bookmark removed.
Googling for another site now.