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  • May 1, 2018 at 7:51 am #219482
    BlakeN
    Participant

    Is there someone who can add spammers to list and an easy medium for legitimate forum users to report spam? I don't see a way currently.

    Here is where one of my design questions was spammed:

    Academy Pro Full Width Image Text Overlay Hero Section

    By this user:
    https://www.studiopress.community/users/medicalrap/

    May 1, 2018 at 10:30 am #219486
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    Andrea Rennick is the only one that can block spammers. I've deleted the spam reply from your question.

    Regards,

    Victor
    https://victorfont.com/
    Call us toll free: 844-VIC-FONT (842-3668)
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    May 2, 2018 at 6:40 am #219504
    Andrea Rennick
    Member

    Mods like Victor can also mark posts and replies as spam - which will show me what to look at (so I can block the user) rather than deleting them outright.

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    May 2, 2018 at 6:44 am #219505
    BlakeN
    Participant

    Thank you for the help.

    I still believe we should have a medium to report spam and users to be blocked that does not stem from a "general discussion" topic or something of the sort.

    It would be much easier on both of you and given the volume of topics in these forums no one would expect either of you to catch the bulk of it.

    May 3, 2018 at 6:30 am #219518
    Andrea Rennick
    Member

    Mods and admins have a "spam" link showing on every post. We have multiple moderators.

    Anything tagged as spam sends me a notice within 24 hours. Any forum user can add a tag to a post. (see below the reply box)

    The forums are not crawled by search engines so most spam bots miss these forums. We have Akismet installed that catches quite a lot as well.

    You'd probably be surprised at how little spam actually comes through. 🙂 For example, there's been zero spam since my last reply.

    **forum signature**
    If you need technical support for your theme please file a ticket.

    The forums are community based. Staff only monitors the forum for issues relating to the forum itself and to redirect users to where they need to go.

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