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Not Quite On Topic: Reporting Spammers w/o Opening Spam Threads?

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TheBiscuit:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 21 Jan 2011, 06:58 ---Is there a way we can report obvious spammers without opening their threads, and by so doing accidentally giving them hits?

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I was under the impression that they gain nothing if you view the thread... only when you click through on their link and visit the site.

Is that incorrect?

Nick and Marla:

--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 25 Jan 2011, 20:49 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 21 Jan 2011, 06:58 ---Is there a way we can report obvious spammers without opening their threads, and by so doing accidentally giving them hits?

--- End quote ---
I was under the impression that they gain nothing if you view the thread... only when you click through on their link and visit the site.

Is that incorrect?

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No, you're right.

pwhodges:
They gain nothing, but they get a log entry showing were their post was successfully displayed.  However, I can't believe that they use the few entries they get from here as positive encouragement to return.  It's one of those things that it's not worth our effort bothering about, either - we just get on with blocking and deleting in any case.

Just FYI, although I only get to remove spam here, and Ben (est) does the work on the server blocking, in my day job I do a lot of spam blocking myself.

Kugai:
Spammers should be dragged into Public Square and given 20 lashes.

jwhouk:
No. That's too GOOD for them.

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