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Unfortunately, there's really no way for us to be sure when we're going through the classifieds. Suspicions aren't hard evidence and I prefer to err on the side of not driving away legit users. All I can really say is whether or not they're posting from Wisconsin, and with some ISPs I can't even be one hundred percent positive of that (for instance, Road Runner's got some of their servers registered with ARIN as regions and states, and a lot of legit users that I know for certain are posting from Wisconsin show up as having Hawaiian or Coloradan IP addresses). I'm a little concerned about certain unnamed members being puppymills too, but the best thing to do for that really is to educate people what to look for and so drive the mills out of business. Unless there's some kind of fraud or abuse conviction against a person, I can't really justify deleting them. Innocent until proven guilty, you might say.
I believe the next big overhaul of the site includes a reputation system as we've talked about implementing. I think that will also help cut down the instance of mills advertising on the site because they will probably end up with a negative reputation which will warn users not to buy from them.
If there aren't posts on puppy mills, how to detect them, how to deal with them, etc, already in the Pets forum, I greatly encourage you to create a few and keep them lively so they stay near the top of board. Education on the subject is the best weapon.
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