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?

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  • 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.

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  • Is it getting worse?

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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!

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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!

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

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Claude31
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  • Yay!

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    eskimo

  • Hmm... it's much worse again, this weekend.

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    robnotyou

  • Seems it is just spammers are working or not. The fix may not be working nor deletion by moderator is not fast enough when spammers are working heavily.

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