carlsson
Veteran Member
As suggested by one of the spammers last week, if the forum has a section designated for spammers, most serious spammers (yes, I know it is an oxymoron) will post their messages there instead of flooding a dozen other areas. Recently, almost all spam posts seem to end up in Off-Topic Marketplace, which may look like the closest place for random spam to appear.
My thought was if there is a Spam section, maybe the forum software can be set up to automatically empty it every second hour or so. Spammers would get their reward of posting the garbage in yet another forum, the moderators would get their reward of not needing to remove spam and ban users in the middle of the night (exaggeration), the rest of us users would get our reward of not needing to report trivial spamming. Does anyone else think that it would work, or is it naïve optimism that bots and people posting spam navigate their way to the most suitable area before posting?
My thought was if there is a Spam section, maybe the forum software can be set up to automatically empty it every second hour or so. Spammers would get their reward of posting the garbage in yet another forum, the moderators would get their reward of not needing to remove spam and ban users in the middle of the night (exaggeration), the rest of us users would get our reward of not needing to report trivial spamming. Does anyone else think that it would work, or is it naïve optimism that bots and people posting spam navigate their way to the most suitable area before posting?