[Mark]

If anything, I was just curious as to how these spammers manage to make an entire account to themselves and then blow us up with ads.

Well, I'd imagine that they do it the same way the rest of us set up our accounts and post - they just set up an account (which is really not all that difficult) and then start posting (also not all that difficult).

About the only way to avoid such situations altogether would, I imagine, making it so that the mods would have to approve the first few posts of any new account created, and as Buggy Girl noted, the mods are all busy individuals (it could also, I'm sure, be something that would be frustrating for all the new legitimate posters).