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    Hi Technet,

    There are much of spammers in the forums. If we mark a user as spammer, the forum is cleaned quickly. That's very good.

    Most spammers make more then 10 discussions in a very short time. Maybe it is possible to autoblock such users?

    • Moved by Mike Kinsman Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:33 AM forums feedback
    Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:07 AM

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    Hi,

    There are autofilters in place to catch spam threads. They work much better now then they used to, IMHO. I've proposed adding post rate limiting to slow down the spammers, but I don't think that suggestion has been accepted (yet, at least).

    Anyway, just keep on tagging any spam you see as such and the admins/mods will take care of it.

    Don't retire TechNet! - (Don't give up yet - 13,085+ strong and growing)

    • Proposed as answer by Dave PatrickMVP Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:16 AM
    • Unproposed as answer by AWH84 Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:33 AM
    Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:00 PM
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    As you can see, each minute 1 post. If the forum autoblock each users who make x postings in x minutes...

    Come back and mark replies as answer if they help, and help others with the same problem.

    Friday, January 23, 2015 9:35 AM
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    I've been asking for rate limiting for at least a year. Hasn't happened.

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    Friday, January 23, 2015 1:20 PM
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    Okay,

    If many people vote this topic as helpfull, maybe Microsoft improve the forum against spammers. ;)

    It should be simple to do more with rules.

    Come back and mark replies as answer if they help, and help others with the same problem. If this post is helpful please vote it as Helpful on the left side.


    • Edited by AWH84 Monday, February 2, 2015 3:22 PM
    Monday, February 2, 2015 3:21 PM
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    If many people vote this topic as helpfull, maybe Microsoft improve the forum against spammers. ;)

    Unlikely, they're already aware of the spam scourge. Just keep on tagging posts as spam and that will help more than asking for votes here.

    It should be simple to do more with rules.

    I think that's a vast oversimplification.

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    Monday, February 2, 2015 3:42 PM
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    Hello Ahuibers,

    One of the things the forum team does, is to try to avoid spamming. 

    However, be aware, sometimes the cure is worse then the treat. 


    Success
    Cor

    Tuesday, February 3, 2015 11:25 AM