Spam threads and how to stop them for a while

[RealKC]

When I borwse the forum in the morning I'll see spam threads and I report them, I haven't seen more than one.
Anyway to make them less common for a while make it so that a thread can't have in it's name "http://" and "https://".

 

[Pyure]

There, I just sniped a http thread in less than 1 minute of existence. I'm doing my job ok realkc

 

[RealKC]

Not when it's 10 AM for me Pyure

 

[Quetzi]

Compared to the moderation queue the amount of spam that does get through is miniscule and usually very quickly picked up and dealt with.

 

[Bigdbigd03]

I haven't seen one yet.

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

I've always reported as soon as I've seen one. The only thing is that I have to click on the thread to report the post, which means it gets at least one view! I know that's possibly a necessary evil, but its annoying to give even one iota of attention to that sort of spam!

 

[lenscas]

I've always reported as soon as I've seen one. The only thing is that I have to click on the thread to report the post, which means it gets at least one view! I know that's possibly a necessary evil, but its annoying to give even one iota of attention to that sort of spam!

You can also instead just report the user and say its a spam bot. Though I am not sure what moderators prefer

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

You can also instead just report the user and say its a spam bot. Though I am not sure what moderators prefer

Ah! That's a good idea, cheers @lenscas - I'll remember that for next time.

 

[Padfoote]

You can also instead just report the user and say its a spam bot. Though I am not sure what moderators prefer

Ah! That's a good idea, cheers @lenscas - I'll remember that for next time.

Either works, since we can access the spam cleaner from a post or account.