"Is this spam?"

[arsan]

May i have a personal question? counld u sent me your email address?My email is [email][color="Red"]deleted[/color][/email], thx, man.

is this spam??

[Rafiki]

[color="Blue"][SIZE="1"](Moved this to a thread of its own, to avoid cluttering the original one)[/size][/color]

is this spam??

[color="Blue"]Yes.

And if you quote it (especially if there's unwanted URLs or mail addresses in it), it just means there's more for us to clean up afterwards

Lately, there has been a significant increase in spam, but not to unmanageable levels. Some we've discovered (and handled) on our own, while others have been brought to our attention by assorted forum members. I'd like to take the opportunity to thank those who take the trouble to bring unwanted postings to our attention. This may surprise some, but we aren't online 24/7, and an e-mail (e.g. by clicking the "report post"-button) or a message on IM goes a long way in getting the "Big Guns" brought to bear [/color]

[Primasprit]

Is this SPAM?

[Rafiki]

Is this SPAM?

Yes, but that is more based on the posting history of the poster, rather than the content of the post itself....

[arsan]

[color="Blue"][SIZE="1"]
[color="Blue"](e.g. by clicking the "report post"-button) [/color]

Hmmm... thats a good idea!
(i had never noticed that button before :bonk

[Tory Whig]

Rafiki,

I don’t want to appear to be a dolt but, I can’t seem to find the “report post” button. Could one also PM the listed forum moderator who is currently listed as online? By the way, you guys are really good at eliminating these unwanted posts.

[GoldSpear]

If Zhuangzi had a grapevine would it look like this?

[Rafiki]

I don’t want to appear to be a dolt but, I can’t seem to find the “report post” button.

No worries

You can find it to the left, in the row of icons under people's forum nick (and avatar, for the forumites who have such), to the right of the "online" indicator. It's the icon that looks like a danger sign, like this:

Could one also PM the listed forum moderator who is currently listed as online?

That works too. However, so far, the spammers seem to spread their spam around the forums a bit, and the moderators usually have their superpowers valid for a specific set of forums

By the way, you guys are really good at eliminating these unwanted posts.

Good to hear As I said above; we'd be a lot slower if it wasn't for the help we get