Whats up with this absurd amount of spam?

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fishman
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Whats up with this absurd amount of spam?

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For fucks sake. There's a dozen spam posts about fake passports that have been up for weeks. What gives? Are there literally zero mods around here these days?
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Re: Whats up with this absurd amount of spam?

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Well, the mods don't get paid.
We get abused and derided by some for putting them back in line for being assholes.
When I get notified by a report, I step in and clean up what I can.
If there is a flood of posts, I defer it to Robert as it is easier for him to delete the account.
All that said, it's a rather thankless position.
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Sounds like a pretty good summary.
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Re: Whats up with this absurd amount of spam?

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Not to blame moderators, but as a point of reference - when I moderated a tech forum many years ago I had the ability to ban an IP address or block of addresses with wildcards, but had to delete individual posts manually. That forum typically saw half a dozen spam posts per day owing to the somewhat lax policy of the site owner regarding registration - anyone could post as a guest for several years. At worst, it took me about 10 minutes to deal with a particularly bad attack. Now that's 10 unpaid minutes, and some days I'd not have time to check in so a handful of spam posts would remain for as long as 36 hours before I got around to dealing with them. But it really wasn't very difficult once I found a few minutes. Certainly not nearly that much volume of spam here.
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At one time the software on this site was outdated, still may be, may add to the issues here.
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