what is with the flood of bogus spam posts?

[jonnybravo0311]

The past few days I've seen a ton of bogus posts from brand new users that are just basically random words thrown together.  What gives?  I've seen this on other forums before, but never here...

At least my "report to moderator" finger has been getting a workout

[philipma1957]

The past few days I've seen a ton of bogus posts from brand new users that are just basically random words thrown together.  What gives?  I've seen this on other forums before, but never here...

At least my "report to moderator" finger has been getting a workout

you and me both I must have reported 15 or 20 of them.

[-ck]

How do you think us moderators feel

My inbox is exploding with reports. I'm getting hundreds each day.

[mexxer-2]

My inbox is exploding with reports. I'm getting hundreds each day.

How many of them are mine? Not bothering with it anymore though, unless its morning when you have to "remind" the patrollers.
@OP this has been discussed more than 6 times by now, one example

[philipma1957]

My inbox is exploding with reports. I'm getting hundreds each day.

How many of them are mine? Not bothering with it anymore though, unless its morning when you have to "remind" the patrollers.
@OP this has been discussed more than 6 times by now, one example

 

Yeah they just posted more of them in hardware.

I won't bother to remind the mods as it looks like too many of us are doing that.

[TheGr33k]

I find those bots interesting for some reason. I remember one that randomly assembled words of celebrities and words that made no sense at all. They make the site fuller, but they don't grab any significant attention if you just don't post about them.

[Quickseller]

How do you think us moderators feel

My inbox is exploding with reports. I'm getting hundreds each day.

I believe that your inbox for PMs are different then where reports are sent to. Unless you are talking about your email inbox for the email that is associated with your forum account.

[mexxer-2]

I won't bother to remind the mods as it looks like too many of us are doing that.

Wouldn't be quite sure on that one, I've been reporting them for weeks by now and more or less more than 400 reports(about 1/8th of my report count) are just those threads. And I've seen that most of those threads are deleted after 10-15 mins in the morning as opposed to 1-2 mins in the Afternoon when most mods, including patrollers are online. In the morning, patrollers don't often repeatedly check the board/patrol page and it has been recommended by many patrollers to report them when no action is taken soon
Edit:

I believe that your inbox for PMs are different then where reports are sent to.

Yup, I can tell its the same as it is in the normal SMF forums

[-ck]

We get email notification of each report, so yes it is our actual inbox...

There is no need to report posts when they're so obviously spam unless they sit around unnoticed for hours. You'll find they're cleaned up at regular intervals already.

[jonnybravo0311]

My inbox is exploding with reports. I'm getting hundreds each day.

How many of them are mine? Not bothering with it anymore though, unless its morning when you have to "remind" the patrollers.
@OP this has been discussed more than 6 times by now, one example

Yeah... I actually posted it in the Mining section... and created even more work for -ck because he had to move it over here.  Sorry Con!

[mexxer-2]

We get email notification of each report, so yes it is our actual inbox...

I believe most of the email service offer Labelling your emails, so shouldn't be more than a bit of annoyance.

There is no need to report posts when they're so obviously spam unless they sit around unnoticed for hours

I'd say 10-15 mins+ is when someone should report, higher than that, with the speed of at least 4 threads per min, I believe in an hour pretty huge spam would've been created. And well, prevention is better than cure

[tmfp]

Wow, he doesn't give up, does he?
What a complete waste of time and energy.
Move on.

[OnkelPaul]

I know that it's considered bad style to apply for a moderator position, but if you're looking for yet another patroller, I'm available
Reported a bit over 400 posts, 100% acceptance.
I'm fairly liberal regarding forum posts, reporting only clear spam (this NotLambChop bot-generated spams, and occasional spamvertisements that are clearly unrelated to crypto currencies). This wouldn't change if I had the power to just delete posts instead of reporting them.

Onkel Paul

[tmfp]

I know that it's considered bad style to apply for a moderator position, but if you're looking for yet another patroller, I'm available
Reported a bit over 400 posts, 100% acceptance.
I'm fairly liberal regarding forum posts, reporting only clear spam (this NotLambChop bot-generated spams, and occasional spamvertisements that are clearly unrelated to crypto currencies). This wouldn't change if I had the power to just delete posts instead of reporting them.

Onkel Paul

Yeah I want to play too

GIMME A NUKE BUTTON

[Foxpup]

I have 992 reports, 99% accurate. Soon I'll have more reports than activity. I like buttons too.

[Vod]

I have 992 reports, 99% accurate. Soon I'll have more reports than activity. I like buttons too.

I just hit 99% accurate the other day myself.

I've reported probably 300 in the last week.

[hilariousandco]

I know that it's considered bad style to apply for a moderator position, but if you're looking for yet another patroller, I'm available
Reported a bit over 400 posts, 100% acceptance.
I'm fairly liberal regarding forum posts, reporting only clear spam (this NotLambChop bot-generated spams, and occasional spamvertisements that are clearly unrelated to crypto currencies). This wouldn't change if I had the power to just delete posts instead of reporting them.

Onkel Paul

There's plenty of patrollers and most of them have nothing to do half of the time. If you want to be a mod keep on reporting as there are users with several thousands of posts reported and they'll likely be at the top of the que.

[Foxpup]

I've reported probably 300 in the last week.

I probably would have too, but for the 2,129 users on my ignore list whose asinine posts I don't normally see and therefore don't report. How do you not go insane?

[tarsua]

I think we need one or two temporary moderators who can only nuke newbies and delete newbie posts, whoever is spamming seem to be intensifying their efforts

[Heutenamos]

temporary moderators who can only nuke newbies and delete newbie posts,

They already exist and are known as patrollers. Here is the answer for that.

There's plenty of patrollers and most of them have nothing to do half of the time.