Wizchan isn't immune to robotic spam. Sometimes a thread will appear at 3AM that's not at all relevant to the board. After a few minutes it gets replies that look like honest interaction but without any of the particular language, attitude, or nuances one would expect from an imageboard. Logging in to the mod panel reveals all the posts to be made from the same IP, so we chalk it up as a spambot. We get the same SEO / Grow You Website / CSCAM spam that similarly shaped boards get.
I say similarly shaped because it's quite literally the layout of the board's interface that determines if we're going to be robospammed or not. Boards that are using the same software, generating the same familiar pages, and are all meant to replicate 4chan, are going to be easy targets for anyone who wants to code a bot. If all the boardnav, post input, and error messages are the same across multiple sites that don't require signup and are reputable for allowing all kinds of topics, programming a bot for one of these sites will give the miscreant a bot that can spam many other boards. There are even prepackaged web browser and extensions designed to allow users to navigate and post on several boards in the shortest amount of time.
Te point I'm trying to make is that yes, we do get spammed and it is likely a piece of software dishing out the posts, but it's not easy for these bots to hide among the wizards.
>>300471The conversations in those threads aren't ingenuine or even a far step from what arguments normally look like here. Snooping at the belligerents' histories shows them to be common users who don't show any signs of being spambots or here to troll. These three subjects have historically been capable of generating a lot of steam. No board is too slow in general to be free from arguments that a couple people decide to sit down and involve themselves in over the course of a few hours or even days.