The image above was taken from ultimate-guitar.com's forum: The Pit. Cybercrime is not really too much of an issue on these forums, however, if anyone decides to post malicious or pornographic content, measures will be taken to stop such things from happening. For example, the picture shows two locked threads on the site. This means that the moderators chose to make posting to these threads impossible and have deleted anything comments that they found inappropriate or malicious. Cybercrime isn't the only reason for locking topics though, since the website has many topic forums, they can choose to lock topics that are off subject. The image below shows the main forum portal on the site.
This method of locking threads and deleting inappropriate posts is an effective and fair way of dealing with crime on ultimate-guitar.com. As has happened before, at one point, someone posted child pornography on the site, during which point the site completely shut down the forums and permanently banned the user and I believe reported the user's information to the FBI.
All of these actions are appropriate to make in the event of a cybercrime occuring on this website. I hope that any website would go about taking the same actions in the event that a cybercrime happened on their website as well.
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