acknak wrote:I just encountered one--a 'decent' message but linking to commercial registry-cleaning software. I unchecked "notify user" and clicked on "disapprove" and that made the post go away. Then I went to the user profile and banned the username.
That's what I do (I let the notification to the user but this is just a detail, perhaps it shows that there is no need registering again under another account to multiply the posts here).
acknak wrote:Any way to discuss a post? I guess in such a borderline case, we have to approve, then discuss it as a separate topic in the private forum.
Indeed. But in this case, post limit must be set to 2 for a minimum.
Well, that's a lot of energy spent for spam. Note that the current situation is a kind of regression since once a post is disapproved, it's deleted, there is no way to revert it nor control the decision (compared to our process of Quarantine section). So we are already in a situation where the mods are alone. But I don't really mind. Time has changed and as long as spam is the top priority, we have to adapt. So let's trust the moderators. The only point I see is that in case someone wants to complain, there is no real contact given here AFAIK. The forumadmin mail address was a great help because people who couldn't register or who complained had the possibility to contact us directly.
But the more I think about the situation, the more i think that we are fighting spammers who have broken the captcha (has been done several months ago but the "technology" may have come only now in the hands of groups targeting the forum among other targets). If we fix this, maybe we will be back to normal. See also this topic where we have discussed the registration process:
Spam.
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