[Web] What are we going to do about our forum spammer?

[Tomasz Siekierda]

On 4 December 2014 at 15:07, Tomasz Siekierda <sierdzio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure you know who I'm talking about: the impossible-to-reason-with
> spammer that keeps polluting our forums with frequent moaning about
> economists, Digia and profits.
>
> He has grown significantly more active recently. We are banning him swiftly,
> but he keeps coming back. In the last few days there's been a real barrage
> from that individual, plus he started getting really personal and insulting
> (not to say he was decent before, no no. He's just worse than usual lately).
>
> Apart from - possibly - nominating new moderators (for example: p3c0, Chris
> Kawa if they are not already), do we have any options? Has anybody checked
> this guy's IP address? If it is static, we could ban the IP, but most
> probably he is behind an ISP network with dynamic addressing. Maybe we could
> ban the email address he is using (I suspect he uses temp mail addresses,
> but just in case he does not) from registering on the forum? Or will it end
> when somebody calls the police (probably unlikely)?
>
> What are your opinions, proposals?
>
> BR,
> sierdzio

And now he is even trying to impersonate Chris...