(12-17-2020, 08:37 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: At least we activated Moderation in time.
EDIT: Which raises a question that I've been wondering about for the last couple days. It's obvious that Moderation doesn't use the Block functionality to ban anyone marked as a spammer; is it possible for it to do so? I've poured through the documentation (such as it is) and there's no mention of what exactly tagging a spammer does except apparently auto-reject.
Moderation seems to operate like the "hellban" some forums had back in the day.
Essentially, the spammer has no clue no one will ever see their crap unless the spambot maker actually looks to see if their garbage actually shows up.
Since most spammers tend to fire and forget unless they keep getting notices their spambots got blocked by the software they use (I've seen some of it before on some tech sites analyzing it, some spam creation software will notify them if they aren't getting through or keep getting blocked out), this is likely to keep them from modifying their tactics.