It's not paranoid, when attacks on the site are something I deal with every single day. The forum task I completed, immediately before mod-ding in your post (and other posts) was banning and blocking several spammers.

. . . I'm happy to remove your membership. We can't possibly help everyone who wants help: there are 10,000,000 pool owners in the US. At best, and allowing a 50:1 ratio between lurkers and active members, we can't possibly assist more than 300,000 per season. TFP can reach maybe twice that. That still means that over 9,000,000 pool owners are still trapped into using pool store advice!