Spam posts - please just report rather than quote/reply

Biggles

evenasus wrote: »

This is what I do. I hit the abuse button on one of the spammers posts but in my text, I quote the username and the number of posts they've made.

Clicking on the 'Abuse' button does this automatically, whether it's the 'old' email system or the 'new' abuse report system.

fullstop

Another lot just posted by "Lorraine Williams" 11 so far

jem16

fullstop wrote: »

Another lot just posted by "Lorraine Williams" 11 so far

And reported to Abuse with no reply/quote - hopefully!

cashbackproblems

Does someone manually post these messages, what a waste of time! Almost as sad as those counting their pennies in the savings thread.

Ifts

cashbackproblems wrote: »

Almost as sad as those counting their pennies in the savings thread.

Regardless of what amount someone can afford to save its a good habit to be in, better than getting into debt.

Pennies make pounds

Meadows

:spam: Talking of Spam I have received two messages in my inbox recently. One a few days ago which could have been a genuine question but from a newbie with only one post on the wrong board, why I was sent the message I do not know.
The other I received today was definitely spam from a new member with no posts (can't remember the name as I have deleted it) this messaged contained links to other locations. I have reported this but could not see a link to block sender from further messages, is ther such a button, am I missing it? :spam:

Reaper

If they are spaming then they are likely to have their account closed anyway.

However if not when looking at your inbox on the left hand side you will see "Edit ignore list". This prevents you seeing any posts by the people you specify, and I imagine (though don't know for sure) it will stop you getting PMs from them too.

Meadows

Reaper wrote: »

If they are spamming then they are likely to have their account closed anyway. However if not when looking at your inbox on the left hand side you will see "Edit ignore list". This prevents you seeing any posts by the people you specify, and I imagine (though don't know for sure) it will stop you getting PMs from them too.

Thanks, I really must clean my glasses :rotfl:I thought I had seen an edit button before but could not find it for the life of me today :whistle:

LongTermLurker

jem16 wrote: »

Instead just report the post by hitting the Abuse button at the bottom right of the spam post.

Then click on the posters name, choose "show more posts" and click abuse on those as well! (assuming they are all abuse that is) - that will ensure the mods realise the poster has only joined to issue spam. One mod once wrote back and said "we can't delete all posts, only those which are spam" and I had to explain that ALL that user's posts were the same post!

alanq wrote: »

The spam button relies on a number of people reporting a thread as spam before automatically hiding a thread. Perhaps better to extend this system to hide individual posts as clearly the mods are taking too long to react to the flood of spam currently being received.

Is that a fact? It appears by every post so I assumed it was individual - I keep clicking it on otherwise legitimate threads

jem16

LongTermLurker wrote: »

Is that a fact? It appears by every post so I assumed it was individual - I keep clicking it on otherwise legitimate threads

At the time of posting back in July the Spam button referred to the whole thread. That has now changed to refer to individual posts which is much better. It means that individual posts can be removed quicker as you can hit the Spam button rather than having to report it to Abuse.