Or as we still seem mod light, why not be radical and have a person do it. Seems to me that relying on technology for this is always going to be firefighting

Hi PG

We have several Deputies who were complementing the system, and as the system improvised, there there were less spammer for human Deputies to zap. Unfortunately for us at EF, the spammers got a bit smarter.

I am sure given some time, we can overcome the perceived weaknesses in the system.

The weakness is real, that's why the spam gets through. The spam team is a sticking plaster, fix it and fix it properly... now, the spam has been a growing problem on here for a while. What's the problem with having enough people with the right tools in the right places, or are your empires more important!

In fairness the spam bi-atches must be doing an ok job, I haven't seen any spam in months.

Just to clarify this, EF is running a spam account detection software that renders the majority of the accounts harmless.

Systematically blocking or monitoring new account profiles has two disadvantages, it prevents users from posting instantly and it would be the most boring moderator job in existence.


CAPTCHAs are not the answer. Read my earlier posts for some more info.


You seem to think I don't take this seriosly enough and am delaying solutions for political reasons. Since I have become admin we have set up a good spam deputy team that would be able to cope with the spam even without software support. I don't remember you volunteering for deputy and don't know why I should give particular weight to your opinion.


They are doing well. Further improvements on the spam front are possible but require software changes that are a bit more time-consuming.

But like everybody else here I am busy with other stuff around this time of the year.

If you remember we exchanged pm's on forum imput before the deputy thing came up, and you were meant to come back to me..... if you remember