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

[Leon Anavi]

Hi Tomasz,

I am sure who you are talking about. Recently I have not been active at 
Qt Project networks because I am overloaded with work at my job as well 
as my contributions to the Tizen project but I have spotted the SPAM 
attacks. He/she (or may be they) are targeting both new and old forum 
thread no matter what is the language of the discussion at the thread.

It is really annoying and it is important to stop the SPAM because this 
SPAM is a disaster for the whole Qt community.

Best regards,
Leon

On 2014-12-04 16:10, Tomasz Siekierda wrote:
> 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...
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