To the moderators and administrators.

I was following the amazing progress of our latest spammer with great interest, since MsRobyn had reported one of his posts to you around 10.

Well, it’s now 10:30 and virtually all traces of him are gone.

You guys are good. Just wanted to let you know that someone noticed. :slight_smile:

So good that I missed all the fun!

Yes, good job. I try to thank Lynn (or whoever) whenever I get the chance, when things like this are dealt with so professionally.

The mods and admins here do an excellent job.

Yes they are quite effective when they need to be. A few months back we got some spam spread to different boards. I reported it, read some threads and went back to see if anything had changed. Their was no trace of the posts or the spammer. For a while I thought I may have dreamed the whole thing.
Moral of the story, don’t piss off the powers that be. :wink:

Yes! I was VERY impressed with how well and quickly you guys responded, but didn’t know where/how to say so. Great job!

Especially for a bunch of iron fisted, jackbooted, Neo-Nazi…oh, wait…wrong forum…sorry! :wink: Just kidding. On the whole, you guys are great.

I missed it. What happened?

Someone filled MPSIMS with duplicate threads, then they vanished
I think it has something to do with that thread that (just within the half hr) suddenly disappeared in the pit, just a WAG

I reported a spam message in Comment On Cecil’s Columns around the time of the OP.

I think it was Gaudere who nipped this one in the bud. She “mass-pruned” all this guy’s threads, which is serverintensive, but DOES solve the problem in one swift sweep. And then she banned him, of course. :slight_smile:

“Never - in the field of spam conflict - has so much been owed, by so many, to so few.”

Shouldn’t this be in ATMB?

I thought all comments on staff actions belong in the Pit.

Let’s just say that the guy’s name involved a favorite sexual practice involving multiple men and a woman’s face. Every one of his posts had a sentence relating to the thread as it related to this specific sexual practice and a link to a website. I don’t dare invoke his name.

I was finding it absolutely hillarious in that it made absolutely no sense, except that he posted to or started 10 threads or so in 45 minutes.

You could say he did about the same thing to the Board.
[sub]Oh God, did I just say that? I think I did.[/sub]

I was just about to start “Thanks Mods / Admins / Hamsters thread” but I’ll just chip in here

That lil’ ol’ [sub]Report this post[/sub] thingy really works. I’ve spotted a few “dubious” threads in the last few days. Press the button and some of them get closed.

I’ll e-mail all the SDMB gods/demi-gods etc virtual beer (or cyber back rubs) to say thanks again guys.