gearheadmb
gearheadmb HalfDork
3/26/16 1:48 a.m.

That is all.

Trackmouse
Trackmouse Dork
3/26/16 10:45 a.m.

What uh....what's going on here? Wanna talk about it, champ?

iceracer
iceracer PowerDork
3/26/16 10:59 a.m.

What is with these messages without a subject ?

paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 Dork
3/26/16 11:17 a.m.

Evidently we were attacked by an onslaught of angry canoes?

Chadeux
Chadeux New Reader
3/26/16 3:24 p.m.

In reply to paranoid_android74:

Last time I looked, this section was like 80 pages deep in threads that were just titled with some Asian characters and the name of an Australian university. It was pretty impressive.

jstein77
jstein77 UltraDork
3/26/16 4:26 p.m.

Wow, how did you manage to delete 80 pages of posts?

chandlerGTi
chandlerGTi UberDork
3/26/16 4:32 p.m.

Just delete the authors account

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand Mod Squad
3/26/16 5:00 p.m.

I wish it was that easy. First I delete the member account then I have to delete posts. Took about 15 minutes from my phone to clean up, sorry for the delay this was my one morning to sleep in. How did the spammer know? It was pretty impressive the quantity of spam. Way more than the Spam Spam Bacon and Spam platter we usually get for shoes and authentic documents.

ssswitch
ssswitch HalfDork
3/26/16 5:04 p.m.

On another forum I moderated on, one of the guys who worked on the forum software wrote a special "nuke" tool that did a one click "ban user and obliterate all posts" operation.

It worked pretty well to clean up the spam bots, but it's not like they stopped coming.

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand Mod Squad
3/26/16 5:05 p.m.

We have a similar tool, but just a moarter round, not a nuke per se.

paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 Dork
3/26/16 6:42 p.m.

Wow, that's impressive!

Thank you EastCoastMojo- and all the mods here- for keeping us safe!

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