KAD

Just had to get that out of my system

Nonsensical

We should all call the number provided. If we could each waste 10 minutes of his time he'd quickly lose interest in advertising to us.

SeekingGrowth

There must be a way to block him or her?

Nonsensical

When I was managing a forum a few years ago I could block accounts by name, e-mail address, and/or I.P.address. I suspect all of that has been tried. Unfortunately the spambots can change all of those rather quickly and open new accounts.

It's annoying as can be for both users and administrators. I have long been amazed at how little spam we see on this VERY LARGE forum. There are probably hundreds of attacks daily. The admins and moderators do a great job.

GracieLou

I dunno, that black magic specialist title looked interesting.

Maybe I can cast a ****** spell on someone...LOL

skunkape

If a wizard could have got me sober I would have tried it... just sayin...

Nonsensical

I would also add that there is a line to walk. The admins can increase the difficulty of opening an account, but that applies to real members as well as spambots. Many many people come here in crisis mode, so increasing the difficulty (and time required) to open a new account could have a huge negative effect on getting new people on board in a timely manner.

The spammers make me ill, but in a sense they are the price we have to pay to get help to new people as soon as possible. Overall, I'd say the admins here have got the right balance of spam control vs outreach.

PurpleKnight

Yeah they are doing my head in too, though compared to a few days ago they only got away with much fewer posts, so something is going right in the security!!

Croissant

I bet I know who you would be putting a ****** spell on. hehe.

Fandy

just report what you see and ignore it. Starting a thread about it only makes more work for those that monitor these boards.

Thepatman

If it's originating from the same IP address it should be straight forward for the SR IT folks to block him at their IDS/IPS or Firewall level. Just saying.

ScottFromWI

The mods know what they are doing here on sr...it's just impossible for them to instantly catch everything immediately. Remember they are volunteers. Reporting things does help so do if you notice it.