# Spammer?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [June 14, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147 "2010-06-14T15:53:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147/1 "2010-06-14T15:53:07Z")
[Answer me?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567057)
> [@samclem](#):
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> Sorry, guys. A spammer started this one, and I removed his ten posts from the board but overlooked that this one had replies. I’ll close it.
How does a spammer start a thread under a registered user’s account name?
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147/2 "2010-06-14T15:59:59Z")
When the actual first post by the spammer was removed, the next post that was non-spam was listed as the originator of the thread.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147/3 "2010-06-14T16:00:15Z")
The first post in the thread was removed. **Raveman** did not post the OP.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147/4 "2010-06-14T16:00:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> [Answer me?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567057)
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> How does a spammer start a thread under a registered user’s account name?
He didn’t, the OP was removed. Look at **Ravenman’s** post,it’s a response to the vanished OP.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147/5 "2010-06-14T16:21:17Z")
Aha. I forgot about that.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147/6 "2010-06-14T17:52:13Z")
**Johnny L.A.** , if you’re trying to disavow that sheep ranch thread you drunk posted, it won’t work.
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### Author:  [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147/7 "2010-06-14T21:57:33Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> **Johnny L.A.** , if you’re trying to disavow that sheep ranch thread you drunk posted, it won’t work.
SHEEP RANCH??? Where? I’m there, dude! 😃
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammer/543147/8 "2010-06-14T23:30:27Z")
I’m the miscreant. I was on my first cup of coffee this morning and discovered 10 “report this posts” to my emails during the night. I quickly discovered that one spammer was responsible for all. We have this handy dandy ability to see all of it’s posts, click on some boxes, and away they go!!
But, in my early morning stupor, I forgot that there were responses left when I disappeared his _posts_.
I caught some of the remaindered threads over the next hour, between shower, coffee, and disappeared _them_, but must have missed at least one.