Spam out of control: Q&A ineffective

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Panzer Max

.. I am working on a spam tool with Eric, to help admins and moderators detect spam in new members who actually get past the registration but have not made a spam post that members will see and report. Generally, there are a lot of spammers who never post, but have spam in their sigs, or homepages.

That's great - I think about that every day when I'm banning a few sig spammers. I used to wonder why some would register and then come back days or weeks later to post the spam, then we installed Spam-O-Matic which checks SFS and it became clear, they probably want to create a bunch of accounts before they get listed on SFS.

So, yeah, maybe something like flagging someone who hasn't posted but logs in just to edit their profile? And being able to list users that are somehow "flagged" as possible spammers, showing their posts and profile fields (and maybe lookup in SFS and any users with matching ips). I'd use that.