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Only the staff could tell, but IP bans generally don't work: it's too easy to get a new IP, and it's shared by all users of the point of connection (router or whatever) anyway.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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can the provider be checked/found and asked to stop the spamming?
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I can think of a few automatable filters, maybe they dont apply here: New members posting immediately will be quarantined, pending human moderation. Same member posting rapidly in several threads (Yeah I know never happens in the Lounge). If they post something like a phone number: quarantine. Stuff like that.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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48 pages at this moment in the Design and Architecture forum.
Yay.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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for the lounge to get a "prove you are human" challenge?
Message Signature
(Click to edit ->)
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Yeah, most of us would fail that.
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I do, regularly.
Is that a bit of a traffic signal? Does it count?
It that group of three pixels a motorcycle?
Does Toys'R'Us still qualify as a shop front?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"Which if these images shows signs of global warming?"
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That's easy - "all the ones with Trump in".
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or just restricting the frequency at which new users are allowed to create posts would be a start
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That would actually make things worse: it's pretty quick and easy to sign up, so all that would do is create more accounts posting spam, just less frequently.
The same amount of spam spread across ten times are many accounts? Even nastier to clean up.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I don't understand... are you not just going to block the user anyway? So if it's that important to them they will just keep creating accounts anyway, right?
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It takes time to close a message - 5 votes - and more time to close an account - 10 votes (thanks to people who decided that if they didn't like a post in the lounge it was spam).
It takes 20 or 30 seconds to get to the member page and report it (more when the site is busy being flooded with spam) so even at best they have 5 minutes per account (or way more at the moment because there are so many of them posting they aren't getting reported quick enough). Since they seem to have the bot going and are posting a message every 5 seconds in QA alone, more accounts makes it worse.
Only staff have the Ban Hammer, not even us protectors can do that. And it's a good thing, because it does need oversight to prevent account closure by mistake, and we all make mistakes!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I see... I think the main "take away" point here is that I only need to create 4 more accounts before I can't start getting rid of your CCC answers 
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All of them. 
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