Reporting Spam

[Madison]

Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil

Here's something I don't quite understand...
I see that there's a ton of moderators. Some can modify your posts and some can merge threads. Why can't you guys deal with this Spam issue? I don't understand why you haven't been given the power to delete threads if you can merge them. Or at the very least modify the Spamer's post removing all their garbage and simply saying, "SPAM, This thread will be deleted."

We each have moderator permissions for certain forums. Of the many forums on the site, there are some which have very few moderators (Career and Forum Help, for example) -- so when spam ends up in those forums in takes a while longer for one of the head honchos to get to it.

In forums where we have moderator permissions, we have all permissions -- so we can delete, merge, and edit threads.

The problems we've had recently are a combination of seeing spam in forums where most of us don't have permission to change anything and some bugs that popped up after the forum upgrade that have made some of tools we'd typically use unavailable.

We appreciate that everyone reports the spam and is patient while we do what we can to remove it.