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At Chez Hamster we're very aware and have been talking it through. Unfortunately I'm on holidays (should that be in quotes?) at the moment so it's hard for me to dig in as deep as I'd like.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I'm glad it's being discussed, as I say I don't have the full facts and the apparent activity by this particular user looks bad.
Hope you are having a good holiday, I actually managed a week without looking at a PC this year!
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The whole thing looks bad, but how can those brand new accounts red-flag messages? They are certainly not supposed to be able to do so. Perhaps there is even more going on.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I don't know, but he seems to be able to delete the messages quick enough. Petes messages were quickly deleted.
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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I'd like to make an experiment. Would you mind reporting this message, twice?
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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Interesting. Get ready.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I hit it 5 times with the "Abuse" option. It is still there, for now.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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That gave me ten entries in the reputation history.
Not the bug I expected.
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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Negative points?
We might get a different result if I use the "Spam" option, but I don't know what that might do to your account...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Zero points deducted as far as I can tell.
I'll drop the subject now, I was just curious.
"The ones who care enough to do it right care too much to compromise."
Matthew Faithfull
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Good long list! 
Squashed few.
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Yes, I don't always get them reported here right away when I come across them. Additionally, I have RSS turned on for the QA area, so many of them show up in the feed, but are gone when I go to check the QA page - it seems that many of the posts get deleted without the spammers being reported in this forum.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Survivors got another clip over the ear...
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Nice! They are dropping like flies  .
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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They are all gone now.
0100000101101110011001000111001011101001
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The member is gone!
In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...
<em style="color:red"> <b>ProgramFOX</b></em> ProgramFOX
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Well, he has got a point. And that isn't abusive - it's just a statement of opinion. It's not as if it is even posted as a reply to a specific person. I'd let it through.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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That considering his low point count (86) I suppose he was not here for anything else than insulting anyone who has posted into the soapbox.
However - Who think he should go can vote him out - Who does not can feel free to not vote against him...
I just voted the post as abusive and not his account so he can get a second chance.
Edit: Last but not least I remember seeing his username near to another post which was not directly abusive but near to its border.
According to ProgramFox there were enough people who thought that he should be gone.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: According to ProgramFox there were enough people who thought that he should be
gone.
The problem is, there's a real herd mentality about spammers. If it's reported here, even if there's no evidence of a spammer/abusive poster, the account tends to get nuked. It would be easy to have members like OriginalGriff, Marc Clifton, Sacha Barber or me removed if it was posted here that we were spamming/being abusive. I'm not recommending that you try it, just that it wouldn't be hard.
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You have a valid point and I think it is because of the steady stream of spam we have been bombarded with recently.
I can only speak for myself, but I do not blindly red-flag an account just because it has been reported here. I check who reported it, how old the account is, if I recognize the name of the account, how many points have been accumulated and I go over any recent posts I can find.
I do have a handful of potential sock puppets and toolkit spammers bookmarked that I have not reported here. I am just not completely certain they have crossed the line and I do not want to be the one that get them kicked off.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Good point, my 5!
In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...
<em style="color:red"> <b>ProgramFOX</b></em> ProgramFOX
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: It would be easy to have members like OriginalGriff, Marc Clifton, Sacha Barber or me removed if it was posted here that we were spamming/being abusive.
I think (but I could be wrong) if an account is removed because 5 members (or more) reported the account, it's possible to recover it by creating a new account and asking in Bugs & Suggestions to recover the account.
In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...
<em style="color:red"> <b>ProgramFOX</b></em> ProgramFOX
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