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Please do something...
1. Give more power to Protectors to temporarily lock the account for some predefined hours as a penalty.
OR
2. Ban the uses after 3 to 4 spam requests to post contents.
Or any other. But we have to have something. Now opening up one by one and reporting as well as deleting is a very tedious task.
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It seems Protection can't protect the site 
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It protects. But in weekends, when people are less active, it happens.
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Yes, I agree totally, #1 sounds to can be effective
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yeah, man... 
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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: Give more power to Protectors to temporarily lock the account
... and rename them "Punishers", with an icon of Bob showing muscles and a six-pack.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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That would be really cool.  
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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: Give more power to Protectors to temporarily lock the account for some predefined hours as a penalty
Spammers use new accounts each time they spam. Blocking accounts doesn't work unfortunately.
Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: 2. Ban the uses after 3 to 4 spam requests to post contents.
By the time the spammer has posted their comments, and we've actually spotted and reacted to them, they are gone.
Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) wrote: Now opening up one by one and reporting as well as deleting is a very tedious task
It is. If it were really easy then I'd have members with pitchworks and torches ready to burn down the place because of people abusing the reporting system.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You are all correct. But the frequency of reporting and closing the spammers' account is low in weekends. For that reason, I asked all those. I am sorry, I would mentioned this in my previous post.
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One of the spammers managed to style a comment so some of the buttons were obscured. I believe I was able to delete the comment, but you should probably take a look. [^]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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the subject is the message.
And I suggest put this f***ing Report flag into the top of a question.
And make a single "button" to Report question and the questioner with one click.
Thank you
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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They can't.
IP range blocking (or even IP address blocking) is fraught with problems: most of the employees of a company will share a small set of IP addresses - so banning those will ban all innocent employees as well.
How would you like it if you couldn't access it because some other person in your building had started advertising his home-brewed website? Especially as you would have no idea who, or what he was advertising?
And remember, changing your IP is trivial: reset the router will do that if you are on a cheaper, dynamic IP address ISP. And most of the spammers will be.
So all you get is annoyed people and spammers that are slightly inconvenienced.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wiki does make use of it.
And I'm aware about the consequences, that it can also hit me if a troll comes from my area. But yesterday it would not have make a difference to be blocked or to see only rubbish in Q/A
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Unfortunately the spammers aren't a single person nor a single IP range. They are all over the place. blocking an IP or even a range (and how do you guess that range?) simply doesn't work.
Bruno Sprecher wrote: And I suggest put this f***ing Report flag into the top of a question.
You mean move the flag position?
Bruno Sprecher wrote: And make a single "button" to Report question and the questioner with one click
We had this and it was mis-used. Members (even top rep members) reported others and closed other top members' accounts.
Yes, the current system is a little inconvenient when we get a spam storm, but that inconvenience, during the other 99% of the time when there isn't a spam storm, saves a lot of anger.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yes mean flag Position.
Thank you for your Explanation. Kind regards, Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I accidentally reported twice a question as "off topic" and realized that I got two times 5 points for "same" message.
Of course, I then tried again and yes I have received a third time 5 points ...
Something seems to be amiss;)
Take these 15 points from my reputation, it was only a test.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Sorry for this comment being off-topic, but please do not modify the spam posts in QA. Just report them as spam.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Ok I will follow to your instruction. Any explanation why to do so?
Regards, Bruno
N.B: Is there any reason why CP can not block abusive IP ranges in the same way like wiki do it. Only a question....
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Thank you.
Modifying the post messes up the CodeProject spam filter when someone reports it as spam after you have modified it. Chris told us not to modify the spam posts[^]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Thank you very much for this info...and sorry for my mistakes...I modified them only to make them meaningless....I thought. I will not do it anymore.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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There's no single spammer or single IP range. IP blocking is not effective. Trust me - we've tried.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The message appears 3 times, but you should only have got 5 points (not sure, but I think it is "patched")
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't know but I'm pretty sure to receive three times this 5 Points. Anyway I would prefer not to recive any Points on reports....
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Bruno Sprecher wrote: I would prefer not to recive any Points on reports
To recieve them is the same as not receiving them. They are just virtual, bring no food, bring no rise of salary, bring no better job...
The only thing they do really bring is morons (rep hunters).
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Some one has managed to down vote messages in Lounge also. This was previously reported by Kornfeld.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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