# General Questions under spam attack

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**Created:** [September 22, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-questions-under-spam-attack/699195 "2014-09-22T10:01:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-questions-under-spam-attack/699195/15 "2014-09-22T11:13:23Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> At least it’s an easy cleanup. They only need to select one thread from a spammer and the board software will seek and destroy all of the threads with one flick.

This is a really nasty sound bite that is totally untrue. That’s like saying that it easy to clean a turkey carcass, because it’s simple to pull the giblet bag out of the cavity.

First, having turned on the computer, opened internet explorer, logged into the SDMB, selected GQ and identifed a spam thread, copied the name of the spammer no, it’s not ‘easy’.

But let’s start with the need to read the thread to ensure they aren’t general questions and are spam, then signing into the Admin section of the boards with username and password, then clicking through menus to the place where spammers are identified (it’s not like they do it every day and so can zip right to it), then waiting while the $\*#@(ing thing loads up, then delrting the thead (that’s the step that you think is easy but you’re wrong), typing in the spammer name, checking that there are no typos, then hitting the SEND button, then waiting while it works ('cause these Boards ain’t whatcha call speedy) and then checking that it did what was wanted.

No, it’s not rocket surgery, but it’s nowhere close to easy. And they are swamped, totally and utterly. It’s time that they don’t have.

Heck, just telling them that it is “easy,” is more complicated than I can fathom.

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