Ok, over the past several months I have been getting a lot of spam comments from new users ... and before anyone says that's because they are new and don't know better or language barrier or whatever ... anyway, on with my rant. I have rarely posted in the forums but now I feel I need to just to get this off my chest for lack of a better reason. I normally like to reply to comments I get from the scans that I scan and post. There are some that have very good opinions and are long and well written when they post their comments and there are some that are good but short and to the point. Those are great and I enjoy getting them :) Then there are those that post half a dozen words, twenty goddam (can I say that?) times in thirty seconds! I've tried to be nice about it and offer some friendly advice not to spam. Some listened, for others, the words went in one eyeball and out the other and didn't register with that thing they call a brain. I can understand why I would never make a good moderator, I'd be crawling through my monitor to slap the idiot on the other side way to many times.
Lately I have been checking on people who have made a comment just once on one of my scans and found there would be a full page of the same comment but to different users. They are getting smarter. That's my fault, I should have left well enough alone and never started checking. I applaud the mods that go around and deal with this sort of thing. You have more patience than I do. I have been contemplating using the report button but I don't want to swamp the mods with multiple instances of spam even if that's what they are there for. What really sucks is I work away from home and I am gone for two weeks at a time. I can't always get on and check to see how many notification I get from work. The bulk of them will be favorites (two thumbs up) and second place will be SPAM! At it's peak, if I remember right, I had over 200 notifications after a two week period away from home and I had to sift through that and delete the spam and reply to the ones that deserve it. I suppose I could just delete the whole lot of them but if some one took the time to make a decent well thought out comment then I should have the decency to reply.
Ahhh ... I feel somewhat better. If you mods don't mind, perhaps you could leave this up for a few days before you delete it. Just in case one or two of those spammers happen to read it and start changing their bad habits, it'll do a world of good. And make me feel a lot better.
PS. I hope this was the right place to post this ... if not, my apologies.