Here come the darn spam threads again. Whatcha gonna do chess.com?

Ah, it's spam time with the nightly ads. Stuff like: Oh, me love you long time. Just pay us some money. & stuff like: Will fix the reationship you fugged up by drinking too much. Just send money. Or the ever popular: Get rich quick the easy way. Just send us some money. & if you order right now we'll also send: Black magic potion made from real cat pee. just send us more money. Order while supplies last.

Whatcha gonna do Erik to get em' to stop? Come on, you guys are all chessplayers, don't y'all have a few good moves to sock em' with?

They just keep showing up so fast my thread is sent down the whole list on the right in about 8 seconds. It just falls right off the bottom in no time.

Apparently mods are traking this thread:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/admins-spam-alert-you-may-wish-to-check-this

Post links to abusers here and they disappear pretty fast.

But I'm not in favour of managing instead of solving the problem. Time limits between starting threads seems a simple and effective solution, 1 hour seems good to me.

They might be spam bots doing that ?  I have no idea but it is very irritating ... 

We'll show you how to be frugal & not waste money, just send us some money.

                     We had a member here a while back who said he'll play you for money. So people said OK, but how are you gonna pay us if you lose. He said, send me your bank account # so I can transfer the $$$.  Don't know what happened to that guy. Maybe he struck it rich.

On a forum I moderated, based on "Simple Machines Forum" software, we could issue bans of 1 day to permanent, triggering on the username, user email, ip address, and/or the hostname.  Most of our spam traffic originated in mainland China and India, where we jokingly determined the spammer universities were located. 

The ban could be complete or partial.  A partial ban might, for instance, not allow a banned member from posting on the forum, but still allow other types of access.  A full ban would disallow any access to the forum from any of the selected "triggers" (listed above).

                   That's about how it works here too. Paying members don't usually get banned, although I've been warned a couple of times about my language. 

Maybe ended up teaming up with those dudes from Nigeria & got rich that way.

                   If your a new member, be on the lookout for someone who claimes to be Vera. She allways ask for your E-mail address because she "has something important to tell you". How important can it be if she can't tell you here.

Or better yet, do not give your email address to strangers. :P

New members should have to do CAPTCHAs for every single post. If they can do 20-50 of those in a row, then lift the restriction.

I like the idea of limiting the number of threads any single member can start, as well. No reason to let any poster make 10 threads in 5 minutes.

Thank you for the heads up.  I tend to stay private.

Sweeping away the spam posts should be quite easy. Hard to understand why they don't have an active mod on duty 24/7 to erase spam threads as they pop up and ban the offenders immediately. 

Perhaps they should make new members actually play a couple games of chess before permission is given to post on the board? Bots dont play chess and I don't see live spammers going through playing actual games for the chance to hit the forum.....

 a few of these spam threads are better of left as it is. and can easily be tolerated. we should just enjoy our chess games... as long as they dont do anything harmful.

well you'll just have to ignore them no need to click on these threads. unless you're interested. clicking on these threads could allow virus to effect the problems of this site. or maybe its late...

So the 3 pages of solid spam + "Most Recent Posts" list filled with spam doesn't tip them off, but posting in this forum does?

Pathetic.

New posts about the amount of spam = SPAM

That, I think, is a little uncalled for. People are getting irritated, and customer irritation is far more important than staff irritation. IMO