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Alfa1 · #13 06-20-2008, 08:21 PM

I think that the amount of spam that a board is getting is dependant upon how quick and resolute the staff handles spammers.

Spam will never be on my board for longer than 10 minutes. And 10 minutes is very long for my board.
My members know that we instantly deal with spam PM's, so they do not hesitate to report the PM. (See report PM hack)
If we would only give warnings, then we would receive less reports.

Although it is not always successful; we do report to the spammers ISP. We also trace related accounts and close them down as well.

We close accounts made with fake email addresses.
We close double accounts.
We scan all PM's with scripts to expose spamming.

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