hi ive got some message of absolute spambot wow its says something about checking every 48 posts short messages but then it hit me U HAVE LOST 500 POINTS so wat is this and has this happened to anybody else caz just because my messages are short doesnt mean there spam they make sense and sometimes useful so wats ganin on?

What this is is a method of combatting spam on the forums- if the spambot finds a message within the guidelines it's given that is the result. At one point during the previous run at AP we had quite a few people that would respond to a post with very short replies without really adding much (if anything) to the topic at hand- Jim has added this in the new boards as a way to cut it short and keep people from padding their post count with crap.