Incidentally, I'd be all for appointing a few trustworthy forum users to receive any threads and/or posts reported as Spam.

Obviously, for other less cut and dried matters that get reported, this would still be dealt with by a Cakewalk employee.

To cover most times of a 24 hour period, you could have a user mod each from the US, Europe, the Far East and Australasia. Whoever gets the report first, deletes it. Simples!

To further cover all eventualities, maybe threads and posts deleted (from the public part of the forum) by such a user mod could be sent to an area only accessible by Cakewalk personal. If any appeal is forthcoming from the alleged spammer, they would have the ultimate decision to restore the thread or remove it forever.
 
This 'holding area' would also allow Cake to browse the identities of the spammer, should they wish to escalate the matter and block their IP address.
 
I can't see any problem at all with that.

My only provisos would be that such a user mod remain anonymous, and no potential user mod that actually volunteers to do this should get the job!
 
 
 
 
 
 

John

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John,

true that, but you hit the nail on the head.  "..very little liablity."  If it was me I wouldn't take a chance.  Anybody can sue anybody over anything.  What is easier, ignoring the whining on a forum or taking a chance, however small, of spending money to have to protect yourself against frivolous lawsuits?  I know of condos etc. that won't accept lawyers (not a written rule, but still whishpered) since it costs a lawyer 5 minutes and a piece of paper to dispute fees etc. that the owner's association has to pay a lawyer to answer.  It is easier to weed as much of that out before it happens.  Same thing w/ a public forum.  Why give any control to a third party that could possibly/might be a problem?
One thing I've learned is if it your money, you don't jack around.

The mods ought to do a better job and it is best to squash spam quickly so you don't keep getting it.  But us forum users can't seem to do our part either, since people look/respond to spam, generating hits.  Which is what the spammers want. 

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I have to agree with you AT.  BTW that 5 min is billed as an hour. LOL

John, I know.  I used to bill for a NYC law firm, as well as copy legal forms out of one of the form books you had to buy.  Once you had used all the forms you were supposed to buy another.  Both jobs maybe put me on the hook, legal-wise.  And I couldn't have afforded the firm to defend me. ;-)
 
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