It is obvious that this spam stuff is not relevant to the forum that gets it posted to. There should be a "Spam" forum so spammers would have a legitimate place to post. Win win, IMHO.

It seems a lot of us are avoiding the forums due to spam. Have you noticed that regular-type posts seem pretty thin lately?

Maybe just don't read the forums very early
in the morning? Because they are all cleaned up fairly early in the day, I never see many but I don't usually look before 10 am-noon. I can see it would be a problem for those in different time zones.

Does make you wonder why this site has become so attractive for spammers though, I admit I don't start perusing any forum or the computer at the crack of dawn but wonder if any other sites are targeted like this.

I agree if they banned any post that had a URL in the top line, it would help, though. NO real legitimate need for that but I don't really know technically if that would be easy to do or not.

I agree I don't think reporting is really necessary as if it is anyone's job to clean them up, and it apparently is, they can easily spot them.

Has anyone here EVER bought anything from the spammers, much less read the spam posts?

It seems like such a waste of their time to even come here.

I regularly buy their grammar and translation programs.

The spam is not there to sell you anything. They just want you to click. Bingo! Their malware then loads onto your computer. Mission accomplished.

>> They just want you to click. Bingo! Their malware then loads onto your computer<<

But who in their right minds clicks?

(clicking on the thread title doesn't open the link)

Ttt

The spammers are not humans, they are bots who search out forums with lax spam blockers, like this one. They are cheap to maintain and inexhaustible, so it doesn't matter to anyone whether the products they tout are relevant, or if anyone clicks ever, or anything practical.

You wind up a software bot, load it up with your message, and let it go, at virtually no cost.

janisj, some of the threads have an address as the title. If so check the name and triangle it.

I don't bother triangling. I reckon "they" can see the spam as well as the rest of us. If that makes me a bad citizen, so be it.
(By the time I check in here, most of it is already gone.)

emalloy: >>janisj, some of the threads have an address as the title.<<

Actually <i>most</i> have an address/url in the title. But it isn't a 'hot link' so clicking on the title will not open the spam website -- it will only open the thread.

Typically each one is posted by a different screen name so clicking on all of them will take a LOT of time. The threads w/ 800 numbers and urls in the titles are so obviously spam there in no reason (IMO) to triangle either the threads or the profiles. The editors seem to take care of them every morning.