How many posts can a spammer make before he's banned?

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[–]NutterButterFlutter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

For real.

If the ban feature is broken for admins, can't the repeat spammers at least be shadowbanned from the site or auto-reported or something?

[–]SneakyBishop[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I unblocked all from my blocklist to see if they were still posting. Some are. By banning at least they would have an extra step before they spam again. My list of suspect accounts is now at 131. Today I added 4-5 accounts that were new. They're easy to spot. Go to All, and sort by New. Then look for the posts that want to sell you headphones, weddings in India, pet advice, IT services, programming, consulting, real estate, and on and on and go to all the posts from that user and report up to a week back. If they are reported they are removed from view, at least for me. Been doing this steady for at about a week.

[–]NutterButterFlutter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Whenever you report a post, it gets automatically "hidden". So it's out-of-sight, out-of-mind for you at least. But it still exists until it gets removed, either by a sub mod or a site admin. I semi-regularly try to help out by going to all/new and reporting too, so you're not alone in that.

Seeing some of the same names for months though is pretty frustrating, there has got to be another solution. If Automoderator exists for subs and can shadowban or auto-report, can't something like that be utilized for the site as a whole?