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@Velocio
I was asleep, but the first thing I do is check the forum when I wake.
Banned the spammer, nuked the 144 spam posts, submitted the spammer and one alias to some internet blacklists (which performs the IP ban for us, but also applies it to another 500+ forums).
The much much harder thing is cleaning up the stuff you guys posted.
Example: Dancing James re-quoted the spam in it's entirety on 2 occasions, and another 5 people quoted a few lines from the spam.
When spam gets nuked it should get nuked from high heaven... there should be a large crater and no trace of the spam.
Nuking a spammer is piss easy. Trivial. But to go through and selectively nuke this line in that post, etc... that's hard, that takes time, that's manual.
So please, for the love of all things NJS, please never ever quote a spammer. At all, not even a part of their post.
And remember that once I've dealt with it, all of your posts are going to look daft. So you needn't even respond... do you think the spammer cares? Just hit report, move on. It will be dealt with, though at 2am you can rightly expect it might be the next day... it sure as hell won't get beyond 24 hours though.
I've still got to go around and find the last pieces that you've all quoted, and I've banned DJ to stop him posting the spam again in the meantime (I mean seriously, I tried to make that point literally yesterday!).