[cstreater]

Just a heads up - we discovered a bug where banning multiple members using vBulletin's delete posts as Spam feature triggers multiple threads, but does so under a single username. For example in the following picture banning all 4 members at once would have created 4 duplicate threads, but the same name would have been shown for each member being banned, vs. each of the member names -- as demonstrated in the second image:





Note the username shown in the second pic is not shown in the first pic. This is due to the fact that I had to snap two different screenshots to illustrate the point.

On a board of our size, it's sometimes necessary to use the delete as spam because it can ban multiple members at once, and because of the added functionality it offers of deleting all posts and threads from the affected members.

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On an unrelated note -- cookie stuffing is back. Be on the lookout for broken images in a post. When a newer member has a small number of posts, you might find that there is weird link wrapped in [img] tags. The browser tries to resolve the link and in the process downloads a file from the site (usually a gif or php) stuffed with cookies containing affiliate ID's. The nasty part is that these cookies are downloaded onto the members computer, and unless they are deleted -- every purchase made on the site with the affiliate ID in the cookie is credited toward the person who planted it there. Most are Amazon and Ebay links. Very shady and morally wrong. That's more of a tip, but I thought I'd mention it since I was on the topic of Spam. Also, note that Firefox does not display broken images, which makes it kind of tricky to spot them. Most of the time you can edit the gif file in a text editor for further proof.