Apple, surely it is possible to block some of these these spam posts?

The spamming of this forum, and the time taken to remove the offending posts, has become ridiculous.

Surely some basic level of filtering is already in place?

Please also disallow:

  • Any title containing a long (phone) number
  • Any title containing the words "Call" AND "Girls"
  • Rapidly repeated posts by the same user, with very similar titles

...and once the spammers have worked around that, block whatever they come up with next.

Is it so hard?

Answered by Graphics and Games Engineer in 695082022

Hi, I've been told we are working on a fix for this issue. For now, please keep reporting the spammers and they'll eventually be taken down. Thanks!

There are effectively a few spams which are repeated ; upsofar, only solution seems to mark as spam. Unfortunately, I wonder if the best solution wouldn't be to restrict forum posting to those with an account (paid ?) and terminate those who spam like this.

Is it getting worse?

Accepted Answer

Hi, I've been told we are working on a fix for this issue. For now, please keep reporting the spammers and they'll eventually be taken down. Thanks!

It seems that either fix is working or that deletion by moderator is much faster. In any case, much better so.

Apple, surely it is possible to block some of these these spam posts?
 
 
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