What Not To Do With Spam Bots (do not respond to them plz)

[ZedF]

Well I suppose it was nice while it lasted. :/

[Nspace]

At least these new spammers seem to be mostly confined to Misc.

[U.E.D.C.]

Anybody else find it ironic that the spam bots have always seemed to be attracted to this thread. Is Doombot having a little fun at our expense?

[TrashMan]

Spambot flood.

This is how Doombot plans to subjugate humanity...

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

[ivra]

There have been a lot of spam posts lately. I like the feature that new posts are in yellow so that I can easily see what I haven’t read. What I have been doing so far with spam posts is to go in to them and back so that they could be marked as read. That is until now. I just found the “Mark topics read” button. It’s brilliant. Now I can read the proper new posts and just click it to get all spam posts marked as read. Just to inform you of the possibilities - there might be more people out there like me that have not noticed this ability yet.

[amtie]

Even though I've already read the recent posts in this thread, they still come up as unread each time a new post is posted in it. :s Anyone else have this problem?

[U.E.D.C.]

Yup, same here. Though, I don't think it's too much of an issue, as this thread's only real purpose is to attract bots....and educate forumites on the proper procedure when one is encountered.

[BlueTemplar]

Great, they're now spamming in German and Russian now... they could at least be original, and I don't know, maybe use Farsi or Mayan language...

[ivra]

Had to put on “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” by Elton John as a thank you for saving the T.A.R. forum from drowning

[amtie]

I believe we are passing through a spam bot cloud. It should be over soon, although estimates vary. Unfortunately, spam bot clouds cannot be detected, unlike comet dust clouds.

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Is it more helpful to report every single post by a SPAM account, or is flagging it once enough? Or, to put it another way, should I restrain myself from flagging every single %*&^ post by the %^&* SPAM-bot?

[ZedF]

You don't need to report them at all; Castewar is pretty good about eliminating spam accounts/posts when he gets the chance and has no more trouble identifying them than you do.

[Gryfalcon]

Don't make more work for me please.

So is the most helpful thing to just ignore them completely? Am I clogging up castewarkp's inbox to no purpose when I flag a SPAM post?

[amtie]

To quote Mecron (approximately), you're just adding fluff.

[Gryfalcon]

So the "Report this post" feature is just chrome?