I have also reported many spammers over the past months.
Most forum software package have an option that the first post from a new user goes into a moderation queue. Once it is approved, that user then has normal posting rights.
Of course this makes it less user friendly for first time users as it will take (a little) longer before their first post shows up in the forum but it keeps spam almost 100% under control.

I know it from many forums I attend and have attended and it works fine.

The spam pressure has really increased horribly in recent times.
I take a peek at this forum several times daily, and almost always there is some new spam.

But now I found that under "View abuse history" there is a "Ban" option, and it seems to help better than just deleting replies and flagging the new topics which have no "delete" button.

Should messages like

http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/no-preview-audio-new-821-suse-114-rpm#comment-18930

and

http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/multi-layer-compositing#comment-18925

be treated as spam and deleted?
I'm not sure because the links coud be interpreted (by a very permissive person!) as "self introduction", but I smell a rat anyway!

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OK, I have deleted these two.

Well those type of links are the ones I report here on kdenlive forums on a near daily basis, they cleverly take a plausible quote from somewhere else on the forum and add their link, but simple hovering over the link establishes the real url, I'd suggest that surely even basic forum protection should be able to check the first section if a href mark up with the displayed text and if not the same then stands good chance its spam. Thats what a human visual check does eithet hovering on the link or view html source. Could at least flag it as so and put it in a spam folder for checking first.

Is this avaiable in the forum software I wonder?

That's first thing I always check, if the links don't match or look suspicious I leave it well alone.

On a happier note, I see kelisi700 was on here this morning but quietly left without posting.

Ha, possibly due to his name being "up there in lights".

vivian58's another regular. That account needs closing.

au contraire, kelisi spams as usual. seems that the forum admins dont give a dime on the public appearance of the kdenlive project.

I log on here and clean stuff about twice a day - however, spammers are active 24h/day...

I've banned vivian and kelisi (someone with a similar nick twice already) but they keep coming back.

I do what I can, and I think the others do the same, but unless you can hire someone to be on the watch 24/7, it will be impossible to prevent spam 100%

You cleared them out this morning, thanks, but now the whole list is full of them.
What a battle, eh?

Deleted 7 messages yesterday evening, banned 3 users this morning...
phew!

Maybe an efficient solution would be to block every new user automatically if his first post contains a link, hide the post and then put the user on a moderation queue for review. This should affect most spammers but will hold the misalerts down.

Or turn the verification into some questions that can only be googled using phrases that are banned from google in China? ^-^ (Joking)

From my recent experince in removing spam from this site I would concur that most of teh spam fit the criteria listed in his post. But we need to have the forum coded up to implement this algorithm. I dunno if such a config is possible with the current code of the forum.

Are we still getting a high volume of spam? I delete about 1 spam post every 2 or 3 days on average. I am thinking this is not that much.

You're right ttguy, It has been a hell of a lot better. Many thanks to all the "Sweepers"

PS Only two Spams on here at the moment.

katherine1203 was on for 23 mins and made 4 spam posts before I disabled its account. I think we are probably winning the spam war with having an army of admins with banning powers.

New record - weiwei12 member for 16 mins - 11 spam posts. Gone