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Old 01-31-2014, 09:35 AM   #17
Bilbo1967
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It's tough. Generally the first step is to check the IPs of the spammers and if the same, then just block the IP from creating accounts, in some cases they use IP spoofing so it is different every time and blocking the originating larger group of IPs can affect real users. I find the spam on MobileRead is pretty low, but there's been a bunch this morning.
Oh, please don't think I was criticising them - I was just agreeing that there must be a lot of incoming spam at the moment because the mods aren't quite blocking it all out like they normally do.

Spam is hardly a problem at all on MR as far as us humble users see (the mods' opinion may differ).
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