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Dealing with spammers

mbbrutman

Associate Cat Herder
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Hi,

Spammers seem to have found our private message system. They are also using the marketplace messaging system too.

If you see spam, the best thing to do is to report it. There should be an icon under each post that looks like an exclamation point in a triangle. When you report spam, all of the moderators get an email. (And that mechanism works for reporting any post, such as over-the-top flame bait, etc.)

Upon receipt, a moderator will do something. Private message spam is kind of difficult to deal with; I've just been banning the users outright so they can't do it again. We can moderate those posts, which is a weakness in the system. (It seems that private messaging should not be allowed for new users.) Erik might have a board setting that he can flip to mitigate the new vector of attack.
 
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