Megan — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:20:55 +0000

That's a great idea, Greg! Nothing like public humiliation

Five users were banned earlier this week. Two were directly caught spamming by PM. All of them had the same IP address (same person, same PM message). I had suspicions about two of them for weeks but couldn't catch them in the act.

The baffling thing is that they are dumb enough to send them to the mods and admins. I didn't get one myself but several of our moderators and Jeevesbond did That's not the first time that has happened either.

greg — Wed, 09 May 2007 23:22:10 +0000

Could we just post in this thread instead? users can then see if a certain spam pm has already been reported or not.

Just to save you and JeevesBond from getting masses amounts of pms/emails about the same spammer
Just the username and message subject/title, then if you see one in here you haven't received an email/pm about, someone can send you a copy of the whole pm.

It's obvious what's spam and what's an actual genuine private message from another user, so it's not like we would be posting peoples details that we should care about, and who cares if we name and shame spammers, people who didnt get the pm will know to avoid their company/website as well

BTW, I noticed the user who spammed me has been banned, so I don't need to let you know unless you actually want to keep a record of how many users received the pm.

Just a thought...