Fed Up Of Spammers

Psykicpup

we police ourselves -its related to morals somehow - it works - why fix it!

kinda like an above post said -spam is reported fast & acted on

even if it wasnt if you can spot its spam just dont reply, go to another thread , its no real hassle in the big scheme

Swan_2

Psykicpup wrote: »

we police ourselves -its related to morals somehow - it works - why fix it!

kinda like an above post said -spam is reported fast & acted on

even if it wasnt if you can spot its spam just dont reply, go to another thread its no real hassle in the big scheme

all good points, & the last one can't be emphasised enough, don't discuss the spam or reply to it, other than for the purpose of initial reporting, otherwise it just gets bumped back up to the top of the board & gains more attention

Horlock

Why dont' the ips of spammers get blocked - sounds dead simple to me (assuming they aren't and that recent petrol guy isn't changing ip everyday)?
Why not give new posters a forum that they can create posts in, but block them from new OPs elsewhere. That way, a good post on the new forum would rapidly find its way to quick grabbit - and duds will be ignored - thus people wouldn't even bother.
The fact that MSE has a way of dealing with spam IMHO isn't enough, if spam didn't work then they wouldn't do it. Sufficiently many people are following petrol links to make it worth the 20 mins to sign up each day with a different id. The only way to stop it is either stop people following the spam links (impossible) or make the spam so costly to the spammer that it isn't in their best interest.

Though I also agree with OP here, it wouldn't be hard to get all first threads to be checked by mods, they must be checking almost that many as it is, as they get reported as spam anyway - which takes much longer.

Poppycat

I see that idiot free petrol guy is back surely something can be done about them

derekwilliams

The petrol spammer is indeed back :mad:

Cant the forum software be setup to quarantine (or auto-delete) any post with specific text in the title or content where the poster has less than so many post to their credit ?

If you look at the recent petrol spam , they all contain very similar text. Surely this would be easy to setup.

If like me you use the excellent Google Reader to automatically notifiy you of all new posts on MSE, you always get the spam posts, no matter how quickly they are deleted !!

PLEASE, please, please do something to block this [EMAIL="!!!!"]!!!![/EMAIL] :mad:

cwp500

The easy thing to do is report anything that you even suspect of being spam.

enough complaints will have the idiots who spam banned.

juno

Several forums I go on won't allow you to post links until you have more than 10 posts. Why can't we have that?

Poppycat

Yes but the petrol guy spammer keeps coming back today I saw two usernames they used, always the same content different username they have been doing this for 3 weeks now, numerous usernames I reckon at least 50-60 now

cwp500 wrote: »

The easy thing to do is report anything that you even suspect of being spam.

enough complaints will have the idiots who spam banned.

Idiot now back online there 3rd username today that I know about every day this idiot comes back

Sarahsaver

melancholly wrote: »

one good thing though, is that new posts of spam are replied to within seconds of posting by other members. it is rubbish that there is so much spam, but some members do a damn good job of reporting them and alerting anyone reading them that they are spam.

IMHO its not a good thing that people post THIS IS SPAM after spammy posts because that just bumps it up and makes people more likely to look.

How about only being able to post with a link in after you have been a member of the forum for a certain amount of time, or else links being moderated.
us board guides do try and clear away spammers as quickly as possible. Ther eis a LOT less spam on this site than many others out there on the web.

Swan_2

Sarahsaver wrote: »

IMHO its not a good thing that people post THIS IS SPAM after spammy posts because that just bumps it up and makes people more likely to look.

I think one saying 'SPAM reported, please don't post further' is fair enough, but any replies after that, even ones slagging the idiots off (tempting as it is) are just getting them more of the attention they seek :mad:

maybe we could do with some stickies about the most efficient way to deal with spammers?