I don't follow.Wbahn have you just turned on yourself?
I don't follow.Wbahn have you just turned on yourself?
So, as a mod, what can you do to the spammers you catch?I use the option to keep spammers from knowing their safe. It works, I've caught quite a few in the middle of a run. Satisfying, that.
Oh, I see what you are saying.I thought you were comparing your post #1 to the wikipedia article, which references several observations going back for years. Then you likened (something? assumed your post #1?) to someone who was awarded a PHD for stating the obvious and well documented. If you weren't the OP I would think you were dissing the OP.
In general, I agree. There are certainly some people (who will have a considerable number of posts) that are come-and-go types who may indeed go for more than a year and then come back for a while and then go away again. I am like that on a couple of forums, one of which I used to be a moderator on. But the total number of such people is going to be small compared to the 8000+ you identified.WBahn,
Of the 30013 members listed in the membership list, 8184 (27%) has visited since 7/1/2011. I would classify the remaining as "lost interest".
In the last 90 days 3017 (10%) members visited the site.
When you identify a spammer, there is a button in every post that calls the forum built in "decimator". It opens a pop up that allows you to select among multiple "delete" options. We usually select all of them.So, as a mod, what can you do to the spammers you catch?
As a spammer, what would I see if I got caught this way? The only thing I can think of is that I would see a message telling me some variant of my username not existing or my username being banned or that I don't have posting privileges.
While I can understand the satisfaction that can go along with knowing that that will happen, it just seems like there should be something more... tangible, involved.
So it has come to this now...I'm going to trip Markd77 and clothesline Bernard and claim my spot on the first page.