Bombarded with spam threads?

Juxtapozbliss

Adventurer
I'm sure the moderators are aware, but given it has happened three days in a row with no abatement, I thought I would ask about it. I get all EN World thread posts in my Feedly aggregator so I see pretty much every new thread started. Today and the previous two days I've seen upward of 25 posts a day on the same offensive spam topics that I do not wish to repeat that are related to the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia. It's starting to get a big overwhelming, and it's rather disturbing. I was wondering if you were doing anything to try to curtail these spam attacks?

Thank you.
 

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I'm sure the moderators are aware, but given it has happened three days in a row with no abatement, I thought I would ask about it. I get all EN World thread posts in my Feedly aggregator so I see pretty much every new thread started. Today and the previous two days I've seen upward of 25 posts a day on the same offensive spam topics that I do not wish to repeat that are related to the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia. It's starting to get a big overwhelming, and it's rather disturbing. I was wondering if you were doing anything to try to curtail these spam attacks?

Thank you.
I'm sure the mods are on it, but in the meantime if you ignore the posters who are posting them it cuts down on the spam.
 

I'm sure the mods are on it, but in the meantime if you ignore the posters who are posting them it cuts down on the spam.

I don’t go to the actual threads, I want no part in going close to those bots and block them. I’m seeing them in my Feedly aggregator so there is no way to avoid them.
 



so should we bother reporting them when we see them or is that just going to create more spam for you?

Reporting them is fine.

Eventually, as we (and others) ban such posters, they get picked up on blacklists, and automatic systems are able to catch them for us. It just takes a bit so we don't get false hits that get in the way of real users.
 




These people are the only ones I block. If I see several threads all of a sudden pop up, I just block the poster and refresh. I'm not sure it is that big a deal, the mods do a good job on this site clearing up rather fast.
 

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