Spammer again

[SouthTX]

I whacked another one today. It's kind of fun to ban them for life.

Jim

It would be a lot more fun to infect them with some kind of fatal virus. I used to have a couple of WordPress sites that showed me all the login attempts and identified the source country. Most of the attacks came from Ukrane, China and Russa, but WordPress is not easy to crack. Ultimately, they got in and activated the email feature to send spam. We had to start from scratch to rebuild the site. They're a bunch of sorry little vandals.

[MarkDeb]

ban them for life

Life time ban. That's a long time I need to read the rules here again just in case

[FatTire]

How does banning for life work? Seems to me that they could just create another account. Just curious, as I've moderated on forums before, and didn't have such a tool to use.

[jeffdawgfan]

Maybe you need a little decal to put on the RV door for every spammer you get....sort of like the fighter pilots used to do for enemy planes they shot down.....

[TucsonJim]

How does banning for life work? Seems to me that they could just create another account. Just curious, as I've moderated on forums before, and didn't have such a tool to use.

They certainly can do that. But we also look at IP addresses and if we get a lot of similar IP addresses, we can block that series. Chris has done this quite a bit, and it really has cut down on the spam.

Jim