# The spam-slayers of planet Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 27, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896 "2012-01-27T19:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/21 "2012-01-28T02:08:29Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Do you have any automated stuff plugged in/turned on? > > [http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248042](http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248042) > > [https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/377906-How-to-prevent-spammers-from-registering-on-your-forum](https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/377906-How-to-prevent-spammers-from-registering-on-your-forum) > > [How to Reduce Spam and Registration Bots - vBulletin Community Forum](https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/359107-How-to-Reduce-Spam-and-Registration-Bots) > Apparently vB 4.0 has built in spam detectors. That’s nice. If you look at the bottom of every SDMB page you will see this: **Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.3** As far as we know there are no scheduled upgrades at the present time. We do have some Fearless Spam Fighters on staff and I am grateful for them. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/22 "2012-01-28T02:26:03Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Regards, > Shodan Every imposter has their ‘tell’. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/23 "2012-01-28T08:00:20Z")
It’s interesting that there is a spam thread right above this one now, 12 hours after this one was started. I’m sure it will be “put to bed”\* any minute now. - It’s about the sleep number bed. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/24 "2012-01-28T08:01:44Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:1, topic:610896”] confirmed kills. [/QUOTE] If only. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/25 "2012-01-28T09:02:25Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > “Over 100”? I have 672 posts, and am in laggardly third place on the all-time list. > > Just sayin’. How about: “Of long term current Mods, only one has banned less than 673”? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/26 "2012-02-09T01:22:06Z")
Can I get a license to hunt spam? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/27 "2012-02-09T09:55:50Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > So I’m not the only one who screams “die, pig, die” before hitting “delete post as spam”? No more than usual. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/28 "2012-02-10T05:09:50Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:1, topic:610896”] [li]The mod/admin with the fewest posts to Spam-a-lot is **TVeblen** , who posted to it only once.[/li][/LIST] [/QUOTE] > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Slacker. 😛 [quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:4, topic:610896”] To be fair, he resigned as a moderator shortly after that thread started. [/QUOTE] To be even more fair, he’s a “she.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/29 "2012-02-10T16:05:40Z")
I once shot a spammer just for snoring. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/30 "2012-02-10T16:08:07Z")
I’d like to shoot a spammer, maybe in Reno, just to watch him die. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/31 "2012-02-10T19:50:13Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > To be even more fair, he’s a “she.” I know. My mistake. As **Wilson** pointed out a couple of weeks ago in this thread. 😉 Mea culpa! ---
**Author:** ![spankthecrumpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@spankthecrumpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankthecrumpet)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/32 "2012-02-10T20:16:37Z")
Do you have a collection of funniest spam? If so could you post some of it? Or is that a perk of being a mod? ---
**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:** [February 10, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/33 "2012-02-10T20:27:28Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > **Marley** , my man, you are _ **NEVER** _ going to live that one down. Pretty much like the subject of sheep and posters who leave their workstations unattended while logged on. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/34 "2012-02-10T21:10:48Z")
> [@spankthecrumpet](#): > > Do you have a collection of funniest spam? > > If so could you post some of it? Or is that a perk of being a mod? Most of it’s not particularly amusing – if it is, we’ll often leave the thread in view after removing the links. Given how infrequently that happens, you can imagine the caliber of most of it. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/35 "2012-02-11T19:35:48Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Most of it’s not particularly amusing Yeah. What **Twix** said. Most of the spam is barely above the “Clik my link too by Candian v!@gra and see boobz” level. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/36 "2012-02-12T03:47:24Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Pretty much like the subject of sheep and posters who leave their workstations unattended while logged on. Just last week, I saw **Hal** and that incident linked to on another site by someone warning people what could happen if you leave a public machine without logging off. He’s internet famous! ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/37 "2012-02-12T05:54:36Z")
I thought “post parties” were against the rules. 😕 [As per this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13942577&postcount=5) Or is that rule only for us ‘lowly commoners’? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/38 "2012-02-12T05:59:08Z")
Mods Use Explodet! Spammer’s hit points have been reduced by 218 hit points! You have slained spammers! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/39 "2012-02-22T11:29:34Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > So I’m not the only one who screams “die, pig, die” before hitting “delete post as spam”? My own moderating was in a MUD; several of us would fireball people’s chars before banning them, often while other admins cheered “fry his ass!”… (the admin version of fireball was big enough to fry any char) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896/40 "2012-02-22T13:51:52Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > How about: > > “Of long term current Mods, only one has banned less than 673”? “fewer” Just sayin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spam-slayers-of-planet-dope/610896.md?page=3)