New record - member deleted for spam after existing for 4 mins and 1 second. Bazinga

for you hehe, so you actually wait for them to spam before taking them down? jk

I'm having a go for a few months now 3 or 4 each and every morning actually on when I log in. :-) Some are so blatently named I delete their account before they post.

Rather than disable I delete account and any / all posts. :-)

Like getting up early on holiday to take in the streets empty of holiday makers and seeing the street cleaners clearing the garbage and dog s**t off the streets preparing for a new day.

I disable the account and delete all posts. I keep the account so that they get the account blocked message if they ever try and log in again. I guess this eats user names though.

"Like getting up early on holiday to take in the streets empty of holiday makers and seeing the street cleaners clearing the garbage and dog s**t off the streets preparing for a new day."

What a piece of cristmass-ive-consummation poetry ;-)

If one day you are in a lack of some ,
you can travel to http://thebestspam.tumblr.com/

Happy New y**r dear spambusters!

Beat my old record by one second !!!

Recently, we've been flooded by "kitchen" spam, every morning I ban about 5 to 10 users...

I've noticed a change in the behavior of the forum engine. In the past the offending posts disappeared immediately after banning the user, now they seem to linger for some time. Is that intentional?

Also, since the "kitchen" spammers mention cities in the UK, and the links are also in the UK domain, maybe there is an authority in the UK where this could be reported?

Yeah. Yellow and I delete a bucket load of kitchen spam every day too.

I find their posts disappear straight away - choose the "Delete the account and all content." option when I delete the account.

I have been in contact with the hosting service of some of the kitchen sites and they are trying to work with the owner of the sites to make this stop. But to no avail so far by the looks.

Yellow and I have been reporting the content to Molum for a week or so now. So it appears that the molum automatic moderation is not working.

Yellow and I would like JBM to investigate if it would be possible to stop very new users posting URLs. Like what the JREF forum does. But we have not heard from him on that.

You could report sites to the web of trust. I have reported a few of the kitchen sites to that. But there are so many.

I am going to retire from spam cleanup for a while so that other users can see how bad it really is - might motivate JBM to look in to other measures.

Post removed... Same here as ttguy.

I am working on a Greasemonkey user script that adds a "Ban User" button underneath users with only 1 post to their name. This button will take you straight to the delete user page ready for you to delete them.
Prototype version is working. Just a few things to sort out.

Only real solution will be updating/switching the forum software (somewhere in the distant future). A good measure would be to have the posts of first time users be manually allowed by moderators, saw this on another spam-free forum. This is however, very annoying for the new good user.

Exactly what I asked j-b-m earlier this week(but no reply so far), like ttguy I've been clearing this s**t kitchen spam for freaking months everyday 30 or so at a time, I only stopped early this week so that's why its been seen now, sometthing needs to be done about it.

>>This is however, very annoying for the new good user.

Not really, I am on several forums where my first posts needed to be OK'd by the moderator(s), and had no problems with that.

If several people have "approve" privileges, it goes quite fast, too.

Hi,

wanna buy a kitchen? ;-)

Honestly: All spam entries have the same telephone number: 01616-694785 Is it possible to use it to ban all the spam?

All the best
Achim

push

Well my greasemonkey script is working for any spam buster users with spam deleting privs.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/167756

With it you can delete a days worth of spam (15 posts by the looks is the usual amount) in about 2 mins. It automates the process by cutting out several steps that are normally required to do the job. It now also logs the spammers IP address to http://home.exetel.com.au/ttguy/forum_spammer_stats.php. I am hoping to use this IP address info to maybe convince JBM to block certain IP address ranges. The main offenders are from an ISP called PT Telkom Indonesia so blocking this would solve a lot of the problem. And hey if you are a legitimate user from PT Telkom Indonesia then complain to your ISP that they should shut down spammers or move ISPs !!!