Can't this 'Astropk46' be banned immediately to stop new spam posts from coming in from that username? Then the 100 or more posts it's made could be removed at leisure.
Think it's a software issue, or at least, that's what a few of the mods said in the thread that's already made about this recent spam attack. Hint: it's down in the site feedback section.
I see that Tiassa is now signed in, Astropk46 is now banned, and miraculously, all of the 100 plus spam posts seem to be gone. Very quick and efficient work. I'm impressed. Thank you, Tiassa.
I think we got it cleared up. The software problem we have is that there are thresholds to the spam-cleanup system, and some of these new bots can post fast enough to get past the really important one; this just makes the cleanup a little more difficult by adding some extra steps, but we seem to have figured out what we need to do. It just looks ugly in the meantime. Something about barbarians at the gates, I suppose. Thanks for the note. Oh, and don't be afraid to directly message any moderators who might happen to be in when this happens. Sometimes we're around and in the middle of posting in another thread, and thus not noticing the shitstorm in this or that subforum, which is usually but not always GS&T. Then again, there are times when we're just not here, so ... er ... right. That would be part of how such messes get made, too.
Bahahaa be thankful it wasn't over 15 pages worth of the spam repeated across multiple sub-forums. I did let the admin know and was told they were onto it. Not sure what that entails yet.