Hi guys {up}

As nowandagain mentioned earlier in this thread, banning a member (bot or not :wink: ) does not remove their previous posts. The only way to properly deal with bot spamming is to remove the spam posts, and delete the "member" from the system.

Member deletion can only be done by an Admin (currently admin or me), so it is very important that all spam postings are listed on the [b]"Found A SPAM message - Post it here"[/b] forum: http://www.fanmail.biz/mboard/viewtopic.php?t=40765 That way we can delete the member and the posts. However I agree, in the interim period it is useful to be able to ban "spam-posting" members to prevent further spamming before the account can be removed.

Unfortunately though, recently some "legit" members have banned very quickly by moderators who have obviously wrongly suspected them to be spammers. I think we need to look into how the whole ban process works, and who can have authority to do it :wink:

Cheers,
Ian :mrgreen:

I don't think they know they can warn/ban at all. {up}

[quote="james"][agree] with TheMailman, although if the spam is being reduced then it may not be necassary for us to ban, but defiantley JMs shouldn't be allowed to do so {clap}[/quote]

Especially if they can do it in any forum, and we are restricted to only certain forums. :|

[agree] with TheMailman, although if the spam is being reduced then it may not be necassary for us to ban, but defiantley JMs shouldn't be allowed to do so {clap}

I noticed that too. I think we should be able to ban and JM's shouldn't :roll:

[quote="admin"]I deleted the posts. Thanks James {up}

Sorry guys, i temporally removed the ban button. A lot of new members were getting banned without reason.

It will be back soon.

Fanmail 8)[/quote]

Admin, you just reminded me of something that's happening in the JM forums. Several of the JM's were listing the usernames of members that hadn't made any posts in the 'spam user' thread.
user' thread

I deleted the posts. Thanks James {up}

Sorry guys, i temporally removed the ban button. A lot of new members were getting banned without reason.

It will be back soon.

Fanmail 8)

The ban button is no longer with us :lol:

It's annoying that only Ian moderates the Ideas forum as I know he is very busy, but I think the posts need to be deleted ASAP.

James :mrgreen:

I think the site is probably hacked again, as the last time it was hacked, the warning button came up not authorized as it does now.

There was a spam post in forum ideas, in a topic that I get email notifications on, so I pressed the "!" button since only Ian mods that forum, so it could be deleted faster. But then when I went to games the same bot had posted the same post in one of the games topics. I deleted the post, but there was no red Ban button, and I am pretty sure the user hadn't been banned yet when I got there. Anyone know what's going on?