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Mass spamming on bankruptcy board (and general)

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Afternoon,

We have an influx again! If you can click the spam button on the bottom right of their posts, then if enough people click they will disppear.

Thanks
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  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
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    yep daily spam from same muppet every day and nothing get's done.
  • [Deleted User]
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    savemoney wrote: »
    yep daily spam from same muppet every day and nothing get's done.
    I have it on good authority that the forum administrators do everything in their power to stop this. The problem is that the spammer(s) use different IP addresses each time. As such, all that can be done is to delete the offending posts as quickly as possible and ban the perpetrator.

    Incidentally, clicking on the "SPAM" button is the slowest way to alert the moderators. A complete spamming of the forum like this justifies filing a formal report.

    I expect this thread will disappear with the SPAM threads...
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
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    edited 13 August 2014 at 12:56PM
    Many of the posts only get removed by people hitting spam button. Times i have reported spammers it take hours sometimes to act upon. They could block the number for a start in there posts, and or alter threshold to automatically ban the spammer after certain amount of threads, assuming software can do this
  • JCS1
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    Have to agree, hitting spam button at least makes them disappear. You can report them, but nothing appears to happen (may be behind the scenes stuff, but there is never any updates).
  • [Deleted User]
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    JCS1 wrote: »
    Have to agree, hitting spam button at least makes them disappear. You can report them, but nothing appears to happen (
    It's the Forum team in this instance, not the SPAM button. If enough people hit the SPAM button then the post "disappears", but only until a moderator has properly viewed it.
    This SPAM is regular and the moderators are doing what they can to stop it.
  • [Deleted User]
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    savemoney wrote: »
    They could block the number for a start in there posts, and or alter threshold to automatically ban the spammer after certain amount of threads, assuming software can do this
    The spammer(s) use a variety of different IP addresses, so there is nothing that can be done other than limit the amount of time the threads appear for.
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
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    edited 13 August 2014 at 5:30PM
    I realise that, it might not even be a person but a bot as they also post in here which makes me think its some sort of script. I meant the number the spammer posts. More could be done by altering the threshold as I said before so x amount of people hit spam button the spammer would be ppr'ed
    The spammer(s) use a variety of different IP addresses, so there is nothing that can be done other than limit the amount of time the threads appear for.
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    The one this afternoon managed 42 threads. :eek:

    I'll move this thread over to site feedback later, and email the forum team to ask them to look.
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  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    For reference, we are taking about mass spamming of this type of unpleasant spam.

    Image so as to not give the spammer any hits.


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  • MothballsWallet
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    Wow, the <you know what's> in <you know where> must be desperate for business... :rotfl:
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