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Originally Posted by andreas.k View Post
Texrat. Reggie May I make a suggestion? If a new user posts lets say 20posts> in an hour I think you should be notified by e-mail...



spam- (S) stupid (P)pointless (A)annoying (M) message .
This sounds like a good idea.
Another idea: exponentially increasing time required beyween thread creation time for any given user.
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Seriously. Bring on the captchas! Anything is better than this spam!
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The spammers seems to be getting smarter on this, they spam when most of the moderators are asleep (most moderators if I'm not mistaken resides in US) so they are spamming pretty much now.

I'm starting to seriously think more moderators based on different timezones would really be ideal as a short term strategy. The spammers aren't going to play dumb forever.
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Oh, we're still awake in the US.

Several more banned and cleaned...
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Texrat (or any other moderators that are awake): Can you guys please clean out the remaining spam threads in page 2 under that games section? I just noticed that has been sitting there for quite sometime. TIA.
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Originally Posted by tuxsavvy View Post
Texrat (or any other moderators that are awake): Can you guys please clean out the remaining spam threads in page 2 under that games section? I just noticed that has been sitting there for quite sometime. TIA.
Again: best thing to do is use Report This when you see them. That way I can go directly to the threads and clean them out quickly.

Anyway, more handled.
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Your doing an absolute fantastic job, we should call you the Superman Moderator
 
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We've been dancing with Mr Brownose, ahem Brownstone I mean't.

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It might be worth reduceing the timeout between reporting posts as a new wave seems to have begun.
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#220
Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
Again: best thing to do is use Report This when you see them. That way I can go directly to the threads and clean them out quickly.

Anyway, more handled.
Look, it's obvious that we're fighting a losing battle (attack is automated, cleaning up is manual), and besides I'm sure that you moderators have much better things to do with your time. Just ask Reggie to quarantine new unverified users already.
 

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