If you mark several of the posts for each spammer abusive (I don't know how many would be required, perhaps 10 or 12), the forum administrators are supposed to ban the user and delete all of the their posts in bulk. Sometimes this works well, but
often it can take hours before they act. Sometimes they miss the spammer entirely. I believe they do not bother if just one post is marked, as they assume forum moderators will deal with the situation. Unfortunately, the report abuse feature is also used
for flame wars and questions asked in the wrong forum, where moderators should deal with it.
The volume of spam has increased markedly since about March 1. There are literally 1000's per day. A few forums, like yours, seem to be targets. I gave up marking posts abusive, as it seems to be a waste of time. I also see more than 30 different spammers
per day, so emailing fissues is only useful for the forums you moderate. I have emailed the administrators suggesting that the current system for alerting the administrators does not work any more. The reply is that they are working on a solution. My own opinion
is that a spam filter will never work. Instead, any user with 0 points that posts 10 more posts in less than 30 minutes should be banned. Or at least, the administrators can be automatically alerted. It is much more efficient for them to deal with
it. Depending on moderators or users to flag enough posts to get action is not working.
Last Saturday morning I did a quick glance in all TechNet forums, filtering on threads with no reply. I glanced at every 10th page to see if there were any legitimate posts. I estimated more than 8000 spam posts in the last 10 hours.
Richard Mueller - MVP Enterprise Mobility (Identity and Access)
Report and ban a user
