thomq: You know, instead of shooting first...you could ask questions. Like maybe try conversing with them? Just a simply reply and maybe you'll find it out it's not an advertiser. OTOH, even if there's not a response it doesn't have to be because they're an advertiser.
I understand this a gaming forum and so the common experience is probably that hesitation leads to loss of life in a game, but out here in this forum it's a bit closer to real life than a game.
Sometimes I think all those zombie movies are from authors who are using an excuse to write a story venting there emotions about everyone else on the planet dragging them down, and that there's no point to try to establish a relationship so just shoot and hack at everything. Maybe sooner rather than later we'll get the movies of a bare butt like everyone was watching within that movie "Idiocracy", so there's not interaction at all.
Honestly? Still not sure it's not a spam account. I've googled his posts on the forum (all eight or nine) and at least three randomly link to other sites (not even well known ones, nothing I particularly recognised) and the rest were one liners.
Looks very much like a non bot spam account to me. And even if it's not, the post I flagged up was fairly spammy anyway.
And I didn't shoot first, I reported it (with the caveat that I may be wrong) in the thread where spam posts are reported, where someone could post to support the account and say they were a genuine user. Why would I waste time talking to account I believe is probably a bot?