[Scummvm-devel] "Intelligent" forum spam bots

[Max Horn]

Am 19.09.2009 um 11:21 schrieb Torbjörn Andersson:

> Max Horn wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> recently we got more and more successful spammers "coming thru".
>> Worse, some seem to be semi-intelligent. To the degree that I start  
>> to
>> be uncertain who is and who isn't a spammer. See e.g. this guy:
>>
>>   <http://forums.scummvm.org/search.php?search_author=deanhanson>
>
> I noticed those, too. His signature just changed to one with a link  
> to a
> commercial web site (as I suspected would happen), so I've moved his
> posts to Deleted Topics.
Actually, that's another point which we should clarify to admins/ 
moderators: When to move stuff to "deleted" and when to outright ban/ 
block the account :). Sometimes it's not clear what to do, I think.

Cheers,
Max