Rankenphile
04-14-2006, 11:37 AM
We get a few spammers in here from time to time, posting about how you can get a free Starbucks gift card, or a free cell phone, or whatever. They usually post almost the exact same thing every time, with the "I hope this works" or "I hope they have these in stock" and such.
Don't reply to their posts about how much you hate them. We all do. If you see these posts, just hit "Report bad post" button under their name - it looks like this: http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/images/buttons/report.gif. This button will send an email to the moderator for the forum and they will come delete the post, assuming it is actually spam, which takes care of the problem.
Replying to these posts only pushes them back to the top and increases their visibility. And we can't just ban them - if you'll notice, none of the spammers have more than three or four posts total in their profile. They create new profiles and post their spam, then move on. Frequently they are just bots doing the work.
Just report them as a bad post, we'll come along and get rid of the nuisance, problem solved.
Thanks guys.
Don't reply to their posts about how much you hate them. We all do. If you see these posts, just hit "Report bad post" button under their name - it looks like this: http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/images/buttons/report.gif. This button will send an email to the moderator for the forum and they will come delete the post, assuming it is actually spam, which takes care of the problem.
Replying to these posts only pushes them back to the top and increases their visibility. And we can't just ban them - if you'll notice, none of the spammers have more than three or four posts total in their profile. They create new profiles and post their spam, then move on. Frequently they are just bots doing the work.
Just report them as a bad post, we'll come along and get rid of the nuisance, problem solved.
Thanks guys.