The top 8 posts on cakewalk instruments are from this twonk. This is making the forum look tacky, surely something can be done aside from 3 different people tagging every spam post 3 times. People will just give up doing it. Oh yeah think I already said... How about some people with mod privs? Why is that not an option cake?

This is happening every day at about the same time. The admins are all sleeping in the states. Time to appoint some mods that are in a different part of the world. I'm in the Philippines and would do it happily.

I'm in Australia and I'd be happy to do it too. BUT I doubt Cakewalk would give that much power to a member of the public so to speak.

wizard71
The top 8 posts on cakewalk instruments are from this twonk. This is making the forum look tacky, surely something can be done aside from 3 different people tagging every spam post 3 times. People will just give up doing it. Oh yeah think I already said... How about some people with mod privs? Why is that not an option cake?

All the spammers should be banned . The spam comes from registering as a new member and after that posting spam messages. This three times reporting crap should be taken out. If you put spam on the forum you should be taken off the member list. Banished for good.

I wonder if there was a way to incorporate one of the following notions:
 
1.  For some period of time after initial forum registration, limit the number of posts per day to 5 or 10, for maybe about a 3-day period.  (with a clear explanation as to why this is in place).
 
2.  For new forum members, have one of those 'type these characters in' requirements, for the first few days or number of posts for a new member.  This would eliminate bots altogether, I would think.
 
Bob Bone
 

We can't make the general public mods of the entire forum. There's a very specific reason actually. There's secrets that float around these forums :)

I've researched making a mod role that is somewhat limited to not give away those secrets, but the software gives that role no more power to quickly clean up 100s of spam posts then just flagging the posts. It's unfortunate.

The thing you guys have to keep in mind with bots like this is we can't really incorporate new rules into the forum to deal with it. There already are auto-ban and spam prevention rules in place and a lot of spam actually is caught automatically. The problem is that a spam bot doesn't post like a normal user who has to follow the same logic built into the forum software. Some human is signing up, probably making a normal post, capturing the various HTTP events, putting them in some script, hitting execute and then punching a baby or whatever other ridiculous evil things people like this do to pass the time.

I've been reading a lot of suggestions and am bouncing some of them off some of the other admins internally. Last time we were getting spammed a lot I wanted to implement something then as well. Funny enough the issue went away mostly and so I never followed through. That's the funny thing about these spammers, seems like they'll never stop but they eventually do. In the meantime, we'll keep cleaning it up. Trust me, I hate it more then all of you collectively since I feel like I'm on call on my one day off a week. Spam sucks. I'm sorry it exists anywhere.

Hi Ryan:
 
Your post makes me feel better because I do hate seeing that spam. I'm sure you all will work out something. 
 
Thanks for being on top of it.

This is unbelievable, the Baba has returned!

Then hire me Ryan.  I'm good at keeping secrets. I've signed many nda's before as well as observing those signed by employer. You can trust me, just ask me.  Lol.  
 
Seriously thanks for being here to clean things up.
 

That's not quite right Tom,

The forum members have done it. Cakewalk have setup a system whereby any forum member can flag a post as spam. When 3 of us have done it the thread disappears.