I DO happen to completely agree with you - the Cakewalk folks have been frequently made aware how much this guy SUCKS - there is not currently any other solution than to do what it is we do.
 
I actually haven't seen the cabinets guy for a while - always wondered how he would come across the big pond to install those cabinets at my place anyways.  :)
 
Bob Bone
 

robert_e_bone
I DO happen to completely agree with you - the Cakewalk folks have been frequently made aware how much this guy SUCKS - there is not currently any other solution than to do what it is we do.
 
I actually haven't seen the cabinets guy for a while - always wondered how he would come across the big pond to install those cabinets at my place anyways.  :)
 
Bob Bone
 

 
The thing that makes it worthwhile for them is that for every 1000 spam posts they puke, they'll actually get a sale out of some poor sap. Same with the email spammers. If they send out a million emails and make a few hundred dollars out of it, it's worth their while. 
 
But anyway, I maintain that Cakewalk could go a long way towards preventing this by maintaining a ban list of proxies like the Tor nodes. Spammers post from proxies - they're certainly not using their home IP's. 
 

Just zapped the song Forum. I always look at the Home page and see if they are spamming the sub forums too. 
 
I mentioned this on the 8.5 forum, 
I think a possible solution is to use the same filter that keeps new members from posting links or pictures from starting more than one thread a day. If this is possible. 
It is just way to easy to create a new account here and start a thread. 
Some forums won't let your first thread through until a moderator looks at it first. 
Some forums won't let you post until you have replied to a certain number of threads. 
Stienberg only allows registered members on it's main forum. 
Example, I can post on the LE forum and Wave Lab, but not on Cubase main forum. That said, it's a dull forum with slow answers. 
But here we could have unregistered people using the "getting started" forum

I check the home page often (which is why I create a new topic or bump one to replace the spammer title showing there).  Since Friday, I've flagged over 200 posts (in several different forums) which basically killed almost an hour of my weekend...  I PM'd Ryan with a suggestion since these guys have really ramped up their uselessness this week.  We'll see if anything can be done.
 
 

craigb
I check the home page often (which is why I create a new topic or bump one to replace the spammer title showing there).  Since Friday, I've flagged over 200 posts (in several different forums) which basically killed almost an hour of my weekend...  I PM'd Ryan with a suggestion since these guys have really ramped up their uselessness this week.  We'll see if anything can be done.
 
 

 
That's what I mean man, flagging these scumbags is a pain in the ass. I flagged maybe 10 of them earlier, and it's still a couple of minutes work. You have to click on the post, scroll down, click the flag, wait for it to confirm (which often takes a few seconds at this time of the night because CW's server still seems to go on the wonk on a regular basis). It's not the best solution. 
 

Just given yet another spam it's third flag of death.

If our usual spammer is posting via a botnet of trojan-infected PCs whose owners have no idea what their computer is up to then blocking IP addresses is unlikely to hinder the spammer in the slightest. They'll simply switch to a PC with a different address.

Cactus Music
 
I think a possible solution is to use the same filter that keeps new members from posting links or pictures from starting more than one thread a day. If this is possible. 

This is a bad idea.  Imagine a newbie who is struggling with several different questions, who then can't post more than one of those questions a day.

I have never in my years here rarely seen a newbie start more than one thread--ever. 
Sure a minor inconvenience, but they could just keep asking questions in the first thread right? 
I'm just tossing some ideas out there as to me there must be a better way than this one which relies on our willingness to spend time zapping spam. I'm still waiting for my T shirt!

As I understand it, the forum software is maintained by a third party, and other than Cakewalk's ability to change some configuration parameters and such, it would require some sort of programming effort (and likely cost and time) for the actual developers of the forum software to make such changes to the actual operation of the forum software.
 
Bob Bone
 
 

robert_e_bone
As I understand it, the forum software is maintained by a third party, and other than Cakewalk's ability to change some configuration parameters and such, it would require some sort of programming effort (and likely cost and time) for the actual developers of the forum software to make such changes to the actual operation of the forum software.

I can not believe they pay $400 per year for this blog/forum software (list price) and it has no option for better capture and flexible user limitation (other than not allow to sent PM before X posts, which I personally find ridiculous for users registered for more than a year ago). Every free software has it. Taking into account very strange e-shop failures, they just do not want to spend money/time for normal support. In hope the community and several "watchers" is sufficient.
 
But the official "spam" with "you are qualified to spend one half from what you have paid" for X3 upgrade disturb me more than usual spamers