Any ideas?

I have a theory that the Twins printer keeps cutting off the last few reliever names on Molitor's roster sheet...

You risk the response of having your account being flagged as a spammer and all your posts going away by posting like this. We’ve been having some issues with spammers. And while we are trying to stay on top of it, we can’t be here 24/7. So if you see spam please report it and then be patient.

"If you see spam, say spam!"

Aww, your no fun anymore....

Aww, your no fun anymore....

Heh ... on Monday I deleted 170 accounts and killed a lot of spam. It ceased to be fun after 10.

Isn't there a way to ban an IP address, so they can't keep making new accounts?

This thread got seriously off track from the printing needs of this fellow.

This thread got seriously off track from the printing needs of this fellow.

The inquiry needs to be repeated 170 more times, per Carole's statistics, before we can take it seriously.

Isn't there a way to ban an IP address, so they can't keep making new accounts?

Spammers are pretty good at disguising their origin. I don't keep up, but it's like using a VPN as a means to access the Internet - I think some people here have said they use this with their mlb.com accounts to watch ballgames even when living in a blackout region.

 

Similar, in terms of effect, to how junk telephone calls oftentimes show up as being from your same area code and even 3-digit phone exchange, even though you have good reason to believe the call is coming from Bangalore.

I did IP location searches on accounts I knew were spammers and got locations in India, Germany, UK, and all over the U.S. So, if they’ve registered a non-sensical user name I will likely tag the account and just watch the others. When we are getting a lot of spam I notice a LOT of new registrants to the site. I don’t always know who’s legit and who’s not but again go off the selected user names, especially if there are multiples with the same basic name with different numbers behind them. But it’s not always easy to just ban a location. We do have users here from various parts of the world, too, so there is that to consider. Those decisions are really up to Brock and all the moderators can do is be aware and delete/ban when there is an uptick in spam like there has been this week.