Deleting Discourse Spam

Just removed 2 fairly new user accounts suspected to be spam. Sent a DM but no response in days and some fishy looking meta information in their user profiles, so I think they weren’t connected to a real human.

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Another spam post

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Deleted two more user sign-ups which looked spammy af.

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I’ve just deleted a couple of posts that were looked like Thai spam, I also deleted the user and blocked their IP address, sorry that these posts might have already been sent by email to people who have list mode enabled.

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Spammy looking user deleted:

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Spam post and user automatically flagged, now deleted:

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And another, over the last year there has been less than one spam post / user a month.

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Thai spam post and user deleted:

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Another Thai spam post and user deleted:

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I’ve deleted a (flagged, thanks @Graham) new user and their first post to this thread, as it appears to be simply commercial spam, it linked to sschopper.com:

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The frequency of the spam posts we are having to delete now appears to be around one a week :frowning:

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I’ve just deleted this post as spam:

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I’ve just deleted this post and the user account:

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Thanks @BillySmith for reporting this one, I have deleted the post and user account.

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This spammer liked the post about about deleting spam… they have now been deleted together with their post… :roll_eyes:

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Another spammer hits the dust…

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This has been held for review, I’m going to delete it, the user account and also block the IP address since it is clearly spam:

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I’m going to delete these three flagged posts and the associated user accounts:

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Spam, links to apktoly.com, deleted:

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New user deleted:

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