Rich, I held back with the welcome because I was waiting to see what you would do. I saw HEKTO's post with license plate pictures and that sent up the red flag. Finally, I went ahead. Would it help if we waited for you to be the first one to welcome new members?

No, please don't wait on me to do the first post. I'm just glad that members will welcome new members on their own iniative. If we get a spammer ocassionaly we can stop/delete welcome post and pull his ability to post as we have done in this case.

His site was actually pretty cool to me, but that's probably because I'm a plate collector...

I think that we get a lot of people here who post things like that because of the name "Collector Forums." I've seen it a few times before, too. If you search Google for "collector forums", this is the first site that comes up. If you're looking for a general collector's message board, the name might bring you here. If you just click "join" and go to post your first post in the General Forum, you may never realise that it's only for Harbour Lights.

And yes, I know that the lighthouse images and forum names and that big disclaimer at the top and the URL should give people the memo....but some people don't always get the memo.

Not sure if this person was actually a spammer, or just confused.

You're right, Greg, it did look pretty interesting.