Spam posts - please just report rather than quote/reply

alanq

Bumping this thread because people are still posting things like "Spam reported" which stays behind when a spam post is removed and thus get associated with innocent posts.

The correct response to a spam post is to click on the Spam button if logged in as a member or the Report button if not.

If sufficient members report a post as spam it is automatically removed. If people post "Spam reported" it discourages others from reporting it and the offending post remains until a moderator gets around to acting.

m0n3y_3

Plus when people quote the spammer the spam URL is then copied and lives on, which often seems to be for the same site, is there a way to report the newuser as a spammer as they generally get to post double figures of posts before being removed

newcastleneil

I quite like spam fritters

chris_m

m0n3y wrote: »

Plus when people quote the spammer the spam URL is then copied and lives on, which often seems to be for the same site, is there a way to report the newuser as a spammer as they generally get to post double figures of posts before being removed

Yes - it's called the "Report" button under each post. I just copy the spammer's latest name, hit the button and put the name and reason into the report body text.

steady__eddie

I've received a couple of spam PMs in the last few days and they're still in my inbox. After reading about editing ignore lists on the previous page, I thought that I'd give it a go. The senders username was a bit too much for a technothicky dyslexic like myself so I copied and pastied it into the box. The next thing that I notice is that a message appears saying that this username is not in the database. Does this mean that they have been evicted already ? The last time that this happened about a month ago, the PMs disappeared without me doing anything but this time they're still there.

chris_m

steady__eddie wrote: »

I've received a couple of spam PMs in the last few days and they're still in my inbox. After reading about editing ignore lists on the previous page, I thought that I'd give it a go. The senders username was a bit too much for a technothicky dyslexic like myself so I copied and pastied it into the box. The next thing that I notice is that a message appears saying that this username is not in the database. Does this mean that they have been evicted already ?

I've had that when trying to ignore one or two posters - if you click on their name to get their profile the option to add them to your ignore list is there, and the same name is found successfully.