Idiot Spammers

[cali yaris]

^ LOL

[cali yaris]

What upsets me is when I see people commenting on the spam thread itself, but not bothering to let us know by reporting it.

+1 gazillion billion trillion mazillion.

[RedRide]

Do we not have mods?

They are getting so blatant with the warez post that you would have to be blind not to to notice them. They are even creating new threads with warez as the obvious topic.

It seems to me that if the mods are online and can can read a message reporting spam, they can also check new post for spam/warez regardless if they get a message reporting it or not.
What am I missing here?

We have multiple mods but, are they all online (and offline) all at the same time and the trolls just take advantage of this?
Perhaps we need a selection of mods that can cover the site 24/7 ?

[tk-421]

There are currently 3 active moderators on the team. We are doing pretty well, considering our limited resources. The problem is not with us checking the spam threads frequently enough, or the limited number of consistent reporters.

What we do have a problem of is detached admins. We have no way to communicate with them, so there's no way we can request things like blacklisting IP ranges. I've been writing some scripts that allow me to know all the spammer IP addresses going back 6 years or so. If we had a way to do this spam would not be a noticeable problem anymore.

Here's the thing I'm concerned with: Posting our limitations on a public thread means that the spammers could be reading it and reacting accordingly. Let's try to use PMs for this kind of thing instead, or open a separate channel offsite.

I'm closing the thread now to prevent any more bumpage.