Please report nasty spammers

[W0lle]

I noticed this several times in the past:

Spambot hits the forums and instead reporting that scum immediately people reply to their crap. Honestly what for, increasing your postcount temporary (as the threads sooner or later are deleted)?

Please, report spambots immediately instead replying to their posts.

[Big Dawg KS]

Given the fact that it takes some time for mods to respond to reports (and yes I make use of the report feature right away when these things appear), is there anything wrong with replying in the meantime just to identify it as spam so others don't waste time replying to it? Like you said, it's just gonna be deleted anyways.

[W0lle]

Well it's pointless, not more not less. The problem is that (some) of the people recently replied to their crap hasn't reported them at all. At some time there were 4 or 6 replies and not one of them reported it actually - that's what I actually wanted to say.

[Arma-2-Guru]

I haven't noticed any spam bots on the forums, I see loads of them on stuff like Facepunch (Garrys Mod) and other forums, not on here though

[Tankbuster]

It's a long shot, but I'm guessing mods are deleting spam before you see it.

[W0lle]

Once reported and one of us Mods around it takes only seconds to remove the spam and ban the sucker.

That's why it is important everyone reports them instead feeding them.

[Placebo]

Most spam bots as we know them in the automated sense don't make it through the forum's defences, the majority of what you see as "spam bots" are actual people sat somewhere in India/Thailand/China/Africa manually signing up to the forums, making a couple of posts and then "planting" a spammy url in their signature.

[echo1]

Honestly what for, increasing your postcount temporary (as the threads sooner or later are deleted)?

The lulz I'd imagine.

On a similar vain but from a different perspective, if the thread and all it's posts are going to be deleted, does it really matter if people reply to it?

[MemphisBelle]

The lulz I'd imagine.

On a similar vain but from a different perspective, if the thread and all it's posts are going to be deleted, does it really matter if people reply to it?

That just looks a bit stupid, if someone is replying to any shit like those spamcrap, thats the only thing I´d guess would be the matter. But that wasn´t the point Wolle has stated, it´s just about to report spams, not more and not less. If you want to reply, so have fun with this, but make sure to report those things.

[Big Dawg KS]

Man... the spambots have been pretty persistent lately.