# Reporting Spam

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 2, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143 "2011-03-02T01:46:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![JFLuvly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@JFLuvly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFLuvly)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/1 "2011-03-02T01:46:09Z")

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How do you report a spam thread? Cause I’m pretty sure this is one:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599041](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=599041)

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**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/2 "2011-03-02T01:47:38Z")

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Click on the little red triangle in the upper right hand corner.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/3 "2011-03-02T01:48:55Z")

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Click on the red triangle at the right upper corner of the suspect thread. That will summon a mod. And you’re right, that sure looks like another spammer.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/4 "2011-03-02T01:49:45Z")

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Reported.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/5 "2011-03-02T01:52:01Z")

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And it’s a good idea to indicate that the thread has been reported (in that thread, of course, silenus!) so others won’t waste their time sending stuff to mods, who have enough work to do.

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/6 "2011-03-02T01:52:37Z")

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And it now looks like the thread has been spaminated.

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**Author:** ![JFLuvly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@JFLuvly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFLuvly)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/7 "2011-03-02T01:52:49Z")

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Cool, thanks!

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/8 "2011-03-02T01:54:48Z")

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Are we quick, or what (6 minutes from detection to deletion)?

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/9 "2011-03-02T03:01:58Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> Are we quick, or what (6 minutes from detection to deletion)?

Spam in the can.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reporting-spam/573143/10 "2011-03-02T03:07:49Z")

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The spammer’s gone. I did it before I saw this thread, but thank you for explaining and reporting. I’m moving this thread to ATMB from GQ.