# A big ol' THANK YOU to everyone who reported spam **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 13, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089 "2015-09-13T15:52:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/21 "2015-09-13T21:22:52Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Hey if we can’t whack together then what the hell are we all doing here? Amiright? [Whacking day song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiUKIWSqqDM) Substitute “spammers” for snakes in the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/22 "2015-09-13T21:30:36Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [Whacking day song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiUKIWSqqDM) Substitute “spammers” for snakes in the lyrics. Because spammers are weasels. [Weasel Stomping Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76IGLi6jWI) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/23 "2015-09-13T21:50:45Z")
Hey, no problem. My family’s always said I was the whacky one. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/24 "2015-09-13T21:51:38Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I managed to ban a few before they even posted. That felt good.🙂 I want to toss out that Colibri nailed more than half our spammers over the weekend. He’s too modest by far. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/25 "2015-09-13T22:30:06Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I want to toss out that Colibri nailed more than half our spammers over the weekend. He’s too modest by far. I just happened to be on while some others had to work or were otherwise engaged. **samclem** and **engineer\_comp\_geek** do a lot of the heavy lifting most of the time. (Each of them have more than five times the number of pelts that I do.) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/26 "2015-09-13T22:35:19Z")
De nada 🙂 BTW did you guys figure the source of the spammer? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/27 "2015-09-13T22:38:36Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > BTW did you guys figure the source of the spammer? As **samclem** indicates above, I believe they mostly are coming from Bangladesh. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/28 "2015-09-13T22:38:38Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Because spammers are weasels. > > [Weasel Stomping Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76IGLi6jWI) Whoa, wasn’t there a thread about Weird Al having issues? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/29 "2015-09-13T22:49:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As **samclem** indicates above, I believe they mostly are coming from Bangladesh. I’m getting spam calls on my phone from Bangladesh too. This fully justifies a nuclear strike. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/30 "2015-09-14T19:08:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > It was kind of like a game after a while… I kept getting mad that **running coach** would beat me to a spammer, only to feel fist-pumpingly triumphant when I got to another before anyone else. > > ETA: And thanks Mods, for acknowledging our efforts and for being there for the follow-thru; I know I’m not alone when I say that we consider this “our” board and we want it to continue to be a great place. Were we separated at birth or somethin? I think **running coach** is really an entity like Ultron or the Lawnmower Man; lives IN the program, so can get spam reports out quicker. Hey, you don’t think **running coach** generated all that spam just to repor…no, that’s too horrible to contemplate. 😉 I wonder how annoying I was to the Mods for the junk I put in the Report Box? Instead of just saying “SPAM,” I was putting in phrases from the Monty Python sketch: “Have you got anything without SPAM?” etc… Gentlemen, start your whacking! ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/31 "2015-09-14T19:24:47Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I wonder how annoying I was to the Mods for the junk I put in the Report Box? Instead of just saying “SPAM,” I was putting in phrases from the Monty Python sketch: “Have you got anything without SPAM?” etc… Speaking only for myself, I was both amused and depressed that the level of spam had reached such a volume that people were looking for more creative ways to report it. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/32 "2015-09-14T19:42:44Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Were we separated at birth or somethin? I think **running coach** is really an entity like Ultron or the Lawnmower Man; lives IN the program, so can get spam reports out quicker. Hey, you don’t think **running coach** generated all that spam just to repor…no, that’s too horrible to contemplate. 😉 > > I wonder how annoying I was to the Mods for the junk I put in the Report Box? Instead of just saying “SPAM,” I was putting in phrases from the Monty Python sketch: “Have you got anything without SPAM?” etc… > > Gentlemen, start your whacking! I actually stopped looking at the report text… and almost banned and deleted a thread that just needed to be moved! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/33 "2015-09-14T19:48:00Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Were we separated at birth or somethin? I think **running coach** is really an entity like Ultron or the Lawnmower Man; lives IN the program, so can get spam reports out quicker. Hey, you don’t think **running coach** generated all that spam just to repor…no, that’s too horrible to contemplate. 😉 > > I wonder how annoying I was to the Mods for the junk I put in the Report Box? Instead of just saying “SPAM,” I was putting in phrases from the Monty Python sketch: “Have you got anything without SPAM?” etc… > > Gentlemen, start your whacking! Actually, the secret is to sit at your computer all day, hitting “New Posts” every few minutes. And despite speculation, I do not have “reported” hot keyed. I do it old school. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/34 "2015-09-14T20:11:39Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I actually stopped looking at the report text… and almost banned and deleted a thread that just needed to be moved! :smack: I admit to getting a little trigger happy there for a while. I looked three times at any thread posted by someone who had a username that looked like a spammer’s. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/35 "2015-09-14T22:52:31Z")
Yeah. I was waiting for a phone call and spent some time on the main menu, hitting “refresh,” watching the new poster names. When I would spot a spammer, I would go shut him down. (And, no, I am not going to mention how their username identified them.) ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/36 "2015-09-14T23:26:55Z")
so - the “edited by” can safely be answered - I happened to catch a new post in the pit - compleetely plain text - reported it - on refresh, it was now edited and a live link. no idea why they think they need to do the 2-step - but thats what the edit is for. (of course, before my 60 second post time was up - I couldnt report that I had reported it). ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/37 "2015-09-14T23:33:32Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Yeah. I was waiting for a phone call and spent some time on the main menu, hitting “refresh,” watching the new poster names. When I would spot a spammer, I would go shut him down. > (And, no, I am not going to mention how their username identified them.) I bet it was their beady little "i"s ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/38 "2015-09-14T23:33:35Z")
> [@simster](#): > > so - the “edited by” can safely be answered - I happened to catch a new post in the pit - compleetely plain text - reported it - on refresh, it was now edited and a live link. > > no idea why they think they need to do the 2-step - but thats what the edit is for. > > (of course, before my 60 second post time was up - I couldnt report that I had reported it). Some sites don’t allow links in a new poster’s first 5 or 10 (or whatever) posts. I’m guessing there’s a flaw/bug in the system that allows a link to be edited in. That’s also why you sometimes see some contentless ( and strange English) posts. They’re getting their post count up to beat the limit. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/39 "2015-09-15T00:04:10Z")
Never mind. I mis-read. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089/40 "2015-09-15T00:09:23Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Some sites don’t allow links in a new poster’s first 5 or 10 (or whatever) posts. > I’m guessing there’s a flaw/bug in the system that allows a link to be edited in. > > That’s also why you sometimes see some contentless ( and strange English) posts. They’re getting their post count up to beat the limit. Another issue with that on our site is we want to encourage people who come to use through Cecil’s columns to be able to embed the column link in their (possible) first post. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089.md?page=3)