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On 10/2/2023 at 2:13 AM, heath row said:

hmmm, to much possibility for abuse, 10 people get a bee in their bonnet with one user, put their heads together, then bamm, bye bye user.

Yep. I made a couple of posts over the years reminding people not to discuss politics or make thinly veiled intolerant/prejudiced statements against certain groups of people (same folks did both), and it's always the same bad actors over the years,  and over time, a couple of them sent me some pretty hateful PMs and regularly post snipes at me in the forum even in threads I don't even participate in and they'll make a reference to me (while at the same time stating that they've hidden my posts, defying logic. Life's too short for anyone to carry around that much hate and resentment; it's such a waste of energy and one's life, IMO. But there's no shortage of people who think otherwise. Fortunately,  most people in this forum are nothing like that. 

Just report spam to the mods. There would absolutely be abuse if the ignore function could be manipulated to ban people -- because trust me, there are folks here who will (and are already) abusing the system. 

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I'm assuming that you clicked on the ellipses on the right side of the post and clicked on 'report' to report post/poster?
(before you go DUH, that's obvious - not everyone knows about that feature)
Forums admins pay attention to reports they don't care who's blocking/ignoring who.

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12 hours ago, Lionel said:

Out of curiosity, what in particular is he/she spamming about?  

Trying to get people to dial some sort of support phone number for numerous products including Mozilla and AVG. It was the same phone number for all products. The actual text did not make a whole lot of sense to me.

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Blocked by key word.
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On 10/2/2023 at 7:14 AM, satya said:

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/forum/32-the-coffee-house/

We should make a rule like if 10 people block a person that people will be completely banned from forum . Just a suggestion 

All ready exists, not the blocking but if the number of posts exceeds a certain number they get blocked.

Blocking is not the solution, reporting with a reason, rather than the empty reports of which so many are.

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14 hours ago, Lionel said:

Out of curiosity, what in particular is he/she spamming about?  

I remember like 10-15 years ago I set up a forum at a domain I had, just to see if I could and how that would work. I removed a signup barrier (like a confirmation mail or something). Next day I got a message from my hosting platform that I was at my storage and traffic limit. My entire forum was flooded with animal porn.

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17 hours ago, Nick Blanc said:

I remember like 10-15 years ago I set up a forum at a domain I had, just to see if I could and how that would work. I removed a signup barrier (like a confirmation mail or something). Next day I got a message from my hosting platform that I was at my storage and traffic limit. My entire forum was flooded with animal porn.

That's what happens when you start a Welsh dating site! ?

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To the melody of The Smiths "Girlfriend in a Coma": 

"Spammer in the coffee house, I know, i know, it's really serious."

Okay, it's really not serious, it's just daily forum life. But this is the kind of ridiculousness that pops into my head after seeing this thread's title. :)

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New Song: "Spammer in the coffee house"..lol ... 

There's a spammer in the coffee house,

They didn't have a name,

Everyone wanted them oust,

Before they went insane.

A phon e num ber in a post,

Di al it right now,

They aren't but a ghost,

A scammer some how,

They hope your an idiot,

A person with no sense,

They're most likely a affiliate,

Making money at your expense!

There's a scammer in the coffee house,

They didn't have a name,

Everyone wanted them oust,

Before they went insane!

Etc,etc,etc...

 

Several key words blocking

 

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40 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

To the melody of The Smiths "Girlfriend in a Coma": 

"Spammer in the coffee house, I know, i know, it's really serious."

Okay, it's really not serious, it's just daily forum life. But this is the kind of ridiculousness that pops into my head after seeing this thread's title. :)

I have two posts in this area that require a moderator?? Why?

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3 hours ago, El Diablo said:

My song must have used all the key words required to require a moderator before it would be allowed to be posted?

It does indeed, because many of the recent spam has contained it, no not going to say as then the spammers would know.

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12 hours ago, El Diablo said:

New Song: "Spammer in the coffee house"..lol ... 

There's a spammer in the coffee house,

They didn't have a name,

Everyone wanted them oust,

Before they went insane.

A phon e num ber in a post,

Di al it right now,

They aren't but a ghost,

A scammer some how,

They hope your an idiot,

A person with no sense,

They're most likely a affiliate,

Making money at your expense!

There's a scammer in the coffee house,

They didn't have a name,

Everyone wanted them oust,

Before they went insane!

Etc,etc,etc...

 

Several key words blocking

 

My lyric was just a simple line, but yours is really good! Kudos, El Diablo. Although I am a little uncomfortable  praising "the devil," you have clearly won this round! Hopefully there are no eternal consequences for that. ;)

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