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I do something similar: I take the common elements found in the spam - keywords, homepage, name, biography - and add them to a common "IsMemberASpammer" function. This gets run regularly, but I still need to do it manually because false positives occur.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Do you do a simple account nuke, or try and fake the spammers out by letting the IP that created it (only) see the account as live while making it dead for the rest of the internet.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Nuke. The profiles are posted by the bucket load and are very short term items. A guy working in Vietnam posting spam links for 5c a pop isn't going to bother coming back to check.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You could always add a question or two about a programming concept in the account creation process. A two-bit hustler wouldn't mess with that just to post some spam threads...I would think.
Anyways, I think you have a tedious task, dealing with spammers hear. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Type the human readable text:
Romania women's national football team
High light it, and paste the relevant link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_women%27s_national_football_team
Result:
Romania women's national football team[^]
instead of:
Romania women's national football team[^]
If you paste the link, then replace the human readable it is fine - it automatically linkifies it and it all works.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I couldn't work out what was causing it, well done Mr G.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Can you block email IDs from being posted in forum posts, answers and comments?
"Don't confuse experts with facts" - Eric_V
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Email addresses (I assume this is what you meant by 'email IDs') are never posted in any forum post or reply, unless you put it in your sig.
Forum posts will contain an 'email' link at the bottom of the message, if you have chosen that option in your profile settings. However, this link will not give anyone access to your actual email address.
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Building on Hans' reply: do you mean in general? As in: do not let anyone post their email address in a forum?
We could, but what problem are you looking to solve?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: do you mean in general? As in: do not let anyone post their email address in a forum?
That's exactly what I meant, sorry if my question was not phrased correctly.
Whenever the system detects an email address in a forum message, a response, a question or an answer, the user gets an alert asking them to remove their email addresses.
Chris Maunder wrote: We could, but what problem are you looking to solve?
It's not a problem per se. But just saves us some keystrokes in reminding people not to put their email addresses in order not to be spammed.
"Don't confuse experts with facts" - Eric_V
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Chris,
As you will see in the Spammer list below, there is one noticeable pattern of the guilty pattern, which has generated hundreds of accounts.
How maybe want to cull these in one go. They are easily identifiable.
1) They have sent the homepage link to '0.0.0.32'
2) They have company name 'Feel Good Inc.'
3) They have country 'Libyan Arab Jamahiriya'
4) They have batches of sequential profile names.
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Good job with your investigating and research. I would give you 500 points for this but alas I can only give you 24. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
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Slacker007 wrote: I would give you 500 points for this but alas I can only give you 24.
As is the case with me. Now all we need is for another 19 platinum members to give 5 and we'll be at 500...
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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1,400 and counting today.
Spammers do it in bulk and mix it up poorly. Each spam leads me to another set of spam and so on. I'm approaching 7,500 removed accounts over the last 2 days.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: 1,400 and counting today.
Not as if you are busy with anything else, so at least your being productive.
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This member[^] posted 2 Tip/Tricks but both are same. Not sure it was by member or happened multiple submits accidentally.
CASE Query for alternate name[^]
CASE Query for alternate name[^]
It would be fine if option like Repost presented in Report action to remove the Repost.
Also there is no Delete option there(May be applicable for big authors).
thatraja
My Tip/Tricks
My Dad had a Heart Attack on this day so don't...
All these are my opinions. Different people. different way of thinking. I am no one to judge others - Chandru
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Can this account please be disabled?
I can't trust myself not to spend an extreme amount of time here while I'm supposed to be doing something.
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thatraja
My Tip/Tricks
My Dad had a Heart Attack on this day so don't...
All these are my opinions. Different people. different way of thinking. I am no one to judge others - Chandru
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It appears as if I DID merge the alternate into the trick. I suppose I was still pretty wound up about the 1 bombing so I did see what I was looking at.
Apologies all around, and I'll just go back to my seat and not say anything for a while.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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No worries.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Can you make that a stickey thread and pin it to the top of this forum for the next few weeks? I am sure John will appreciate that! 
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Looks like that is the wrong URL... perhaps the URL was changed?
Using Table-Valued Functions in SQL Server works for me.
Martin Fowler wrote: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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