posting rules, spam

[langwadt]

are there really no stops in place to prevent something like "allanhit" signing up and the same day doing ~80 spam posts? 

[timeandfrequency]

Just sent a PM to Halcyon (global moderator)

[floobydust]

Many forums limit the number of posts you can make with time. It should be longer.
The commie spammer bot is averaging one post/minute.

[Fraser]

I have watched this SPAM attack grow. There is a 30 second delay on posting so that has slowed its progress. Talk about aggressive spamming though ! Have not seen such here before. I wonder if IP blocking can prevent the perpetrator repeating the “attack” or will they just change IP via a VPN 

[Gyro]

Just sent a PM to Halcyon (global moderator)

The 'Report to moderator' link works best as all mods get informed. PMing a specific moderator doesn't take into account their availability and timezones. I'm sure many of us have reported it by now.

[coppercone2]

pamphleteer robot 

[Simmed]

it must be sunday 

[coppercone2]

I wonder if one day drones are going to try to fly into apartment buildings to put up pamphlets for Chinese food

like flying printers or graphitti bots

[Gyro]

Yay, free drones.

[Bud]

Do not give them ideas 

[edpalmer42]

I have watched this SPAM attach grow. There is a 30 second delay on posting so that has slowed its progress. Talk about aggressive spamming though ! Have not seen such here before. I wonder if IP blocking can prevent the perpetrator repeating the “attack” or will they just change IP via a VPN 

Ideally, a new user should have a variable timeout.  The more they post, the longer the timeout between postings.  But I'd be surprised if the forum software has a feature like that.

Is it possible for new users to have a daily limit on the number of posts?

[unseenninja]

Where on earth are the moderators? This Russian has been spamming the forum for hours now. Joined 16:38 today, 128 spam messages all over the forum so far.

[floobydust]

It's the weekend, mods are on holidays 
Hopefully the commies haven't hacked into the server to do this.

[tggzzz]

are there really no stops in place to prevent something like "allanhit" signing up and the same day doing ~80 spam posts?

This kind of nonsense happened regularly on usenet, and was not limited to the infamous Canter and Siegel.

There was a good solution: usenet readers had filters which allowed you to completely ignore posts matching your chosen filter. "Completely" means "do not see this post nor any replies to it".

In that regard, usenet was an improvement on its successors.

Shame the "ignore subthread" filter doesn't work on this forum.

[floobydust]

The commie bot is still going strong 205 posts now 
Hopefully the admins are not locked out. Very scary.

[Fraser]

I have just seen that Dave is on the forum so hopefully our Russian ‘friend’ will soon be banned.

Update : I just checked and all has returned to normal with the perp deleted along with all the Spam posts. Great job 

[Vincent]

Welp, it's over then. Move along, nothing to see!