First and foremost, I want you to know that we are actively working on the removal of the woodworkqgyl account. (The account has been locked.) Unfortunately, due to the volume of this one, I need ops to assist in the removal of this account from the database. This issue has already been escalated.
That being said, I have a huge favor to ask of you. Starting multiple threads in the community about spam simply does not help. Replying to the spammer posts (no matter how much ya wanna yell at them) just makes my job that much harder. Flagging every single post a spammer made only serves to blow up my inbox. You only need to report ONE of the spammer's posts. As always, for urgent issues, message me.
Hopefully, you and your ops team can also use this incident to ID ways to automatically lock accounts when they start doing a mass spamming like this. Anyone who does more than 1 post per minute for several minutes straight or more than 10-15 in the first hours are very likely spammers.
First and foremost, I want you to know that we are actively working on the removal of the woodworkqgyl account. (The account has been locked.) Unfortunately, due to the volume of this one, I need ops to assist in the removal of this account from the database. This issue has already been escalated.
That being said, I have a huge favor to ask of you. Starting multiple threads in the community about spam simply does not help. Replying to the spammer posts (no matter how much ya wanna yell at them) just makes my job that much harder. Flagging every single post a spammer made only serves to blow up my inbox. You only need to report ONE of the spammer s posts. As always, for urgent issues, message me.
Please post the usernames here if this continues with new members, in addition to the flag as my email is currently completely flooded so I don't want to miss any that need to be locked down.
I've been on other forums where users have to post x number of times before they can post links, and or send private messages. Won't stop them all but may cut it down, and will stop most bots.
hi cricket: the only mail from LJ's i been getting for about a week now are spam about how to become a better woodworker. must have received 10 by now , just 4 this morning alone. don
t want to open them as they probably got cooties, i'm sure i'm not the only one here. hope it gets resolved soon. have a great weekend.
I flagged the spammer once. However, I hesitated over the flag button. How many others have already flagged this person? Will I be #1000? Wouldn't hurt to be #1001 I guess. I was concerned of the inrush numbers of flag reports for a single post, not to mention an entire acct. Since most spammers only post 1-5 messages in volume then go POOF… maybe…. Capthca thingy for new member postings till that person gets to 10 or 20 OK'd messages?
The woodworkqvwt account has been locked and the posts are now blank. Please do NOT flag the blank posts.
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