Remove or change spam with links in title

I've seen an uptick in posts like the one here since the weekend. It appears mods are removing whatever was posted. However, the item itself still remains in zero replies because the title which is the URL the spammer is promoting wasn't removed or changed. I'd like to suggest any spam post with a URL in title have its title changed to spam to remove any advertising for such posts.

I just think their not removed correctly. Suggest you report only and not continue to reply within threads which remain and ask that the threads themselves be removed.

Under the mod tools if moderators remove the first post as spam you can ban the user, include their IP info into the spam filtering service, and once the first post of the thread is removed in that manner, the thread goes into a state where only the moderators and admins can see the thread just in case it was a removal mistake that needs to be reversed.

Thanks. However, it appears once the message body has been removed the option to Report goes away with the message body leaving only the title as for example this post. Can you tell which mod removed the body and instruct them on the correct way to block it from all users?

I don't see any such titled thread in https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...?daysprune=365, perhaps you are looking at some cached listing?

EDIT: nor in https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...=365&prefixid=

Plenty of new spam.

I may have not properly removed a few posts.

Not aware of a SOP on what to do with that type of spam. Permanent ban or just 1 year?

Permanent ban for spammers.

The way I do it is to check on the post and use the pull down tools which you'd use to merge or split posts and there is an option to delete the post as spam. Next page allows you to either do nothing to the poster or ban them. This appears to do more than an infraction where you ban a user because it adds their network address to the spam filtering for the site.

So for when you delete a first post, even if other members have replied, (usually them saying "spam, reported!"), this deletes the entire thread.

If the spam post was just in the middle of another thread, it will delete the post.

Originally Posted by ntubski I don't see any such titled thread in https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...?daysprune=365, perhaps you are looking at some cached listing? EDIT: nor in https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...=365&prefixid=

It was there when I posted and still there an hour later. Someone may have addressed in the 22 hours between the time I noted it and when you looked at it. On the flip side other newer spam was completely deleted while that one was still there. Another poster opened a suggestion referencing my post and presumably he was seeing it as well.

Originally Posted by MensaWater Another poster opened a suggestion referencing my post and presumably he was seeing it as well.

i didn’t check it when I posted...I have noticed that those things disappear reasonably quickly, either because of manual follow up or some automated process that removes all references once the original post has been deleted.