FORUM : Blocking Spammer

I thought 3 people can flag posts as spam and that will temporarily ban the user. This does not remove their posts, however. I am not sure if this applies to all subforums either, but a permanent ban/post removal does require a moderator IIRC.

Bcoz I am seeing for last couple of days this is happening.
 

The most prolific repeat spammer seems to be based in or near India going from the time they post, though they could be based anywhere and just pick their posting times for when the Americas are asleep. Which is why we in Europe seem to often be the first to spot them, because we're in a time zone between the two.

Toughening up the account creation process might make things more difficult for them by the increased/better use of captcha and similar anti-bot techniques, though if they are creating the accounts "by hand" that won't work. There are businesses in some parts of the world that use humans to post spam, add fake "likes" to facebook and so on at a few dollars a thousand.

Preventing a new account from immediately posting more than a limited number of posts might limit the damage, but this is a help forum and preventing a new forumite with a bunch of problems from posting would risk undermining the whole point of the forum.