Fed Up Of Spammers

Poppycat

Assuming that you could have such a feature thats a good idea, at least a number of users say 10 click on spam button like the thanks button it would remove the post if not temporarily

emerydown wrote: »

Why not have spam buttons?
If pressed a certain amount of times the post is locked or disappears until a moderator decides it is spam or not and removes offending post for good.

Nomad25

Only thing is, the cliques, there are some, may pick on people. It has been known.

I had the same thought. Also it wouldn't take much for and definitely wouldn't be beyond some people to click on the spam button, just because they didn't like the post.

Poppycat

I see that petrol spammers is back again with 15 posts of pure 100% spam

fermi

Poppycat wrote: »

I see that petrol spammers is back again with 15 posts of pure 100% spam

Yep.

I've given up reporting individual posts.:rolleyes: Just tend to send abuse an email saying "spammer" and a link to their new user profile now.

Poppycat

Thats what I always do with spammers of more than 1 posts this parasite just keeps coming back for more

fermi wrote: »

Yep.

I've given up reporting individual posts.:rolleyes: Just tend to send abuse an email saying "spammer" and a link to their new user profile now.

Merlot

Why has this spammer not been banned from MSE? He spammed 10 boards the other night and is doing it again tonight, am I wasting my time emailing abuse with these links? I think I am, so in future I'm not gonna bother.

fermi

Merlot wrote: »

Why has this spammer not been banned from MSE? He spammed 10 boards the other night and is doing it again tonight, am I wasting my time emailing abuse with these links? I think I am, so in future I'm not gonna bother.

It's not easy to ban someone when they are determined.

- They can ban their IP address, but these are easily changed. Mine changes when I re-boot my router.
- They can ban the email address that they registered with. But a new address is easy to come by.
- They can ban the link shortening/redirecting sites/urls that they use in their posts, but there are 1000's of others they can use.

Merlot

fermi wrote: »

It's not easy to ban someone when they are determined.

- They can ban their IP address, but these are easily changed. Mine changes when I re-boot my router.
- They can ban the email address that they registered with. But a new address is easy to come by.
- They can ban the link shortening/redirecting sites/urls that they use in their posts, but there are 1000's of others they can use.

Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense why this spammer keeps coming back then.

Poppycat

Yes but you can report his IP address to his ISP (assuming he aint using proxy) along with time/date and let then do the work. I am sure this prat is called Paul he has used it several times now. It is very easy to find someone IP address yes it is shared but date and times may issolate who they are and action taken to get rid of this vermin

People like that only understand one thing action. Action by his ISP to disconnect him and let some other ISP take responsibility

fermi

MSE could report the abuse to the owner of the IP block, but after that is out of their hands.

They could be posting from anywhere in the world, and not all companies or organisations will take any action on such a report.

I'm sure the abuse team are taking every action that they can.

The person (or bot) may even be hijacking someone else's connection.