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*Dusts off hands*
All done.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The Lounge, now its gone you can't link to a Message Automatically Removed
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If you wish to report messages or users, then provide proper clickable links. Saying "The Lounge" is not very helpful, there are hundreds of messages there every day.
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But when I say spam wave a wave is not a single pots it is tens or hundreds of post so it will be visible by an eye and easy to distinguish
Check my reply below[^]
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Richard is right: if you report a spam here, you need to provide a link to the spam, and to the spammer - otherwise if the member is removed before his message, we can't find it: if the member is gone, we have no "member page" to find and follow links to his messages / questions / comments from.
Have a look at this: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4762445/A-money-spammer.aspx[^] and you will see what I mean.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Spam wave is a new terminology we will be using when a wave of spam strikes so it do not need a link to see it since it will be know by itself with the huge number of posts in the lounge and the purpose of my report to put a quick end to it and once it is over no need to click it again as it is done so the objective of my report will be achieved.
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Those 2 guys asked you for only link* of spam message/spammer. Why this much blah blah from you?
*It helps to remove spams & spammer quickly
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Please re-read my post above and if you do not understand English well translate it to your mother language using Google translate. If you need any help kindly inform me
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No thanks, I give up.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: Spam wave is a new terminology we will be using when a wave of spam strikes so it do not need a link
Sorry bubba, but you don't get to decide the rules or to make up terms for the rest. You have been told what the correct thing to do is. Let's see, who should I listen to? Experienced members or someone who keeps getting banned? Oooh, that's a tough one, but I think I'll opt to listen to the people who I respect.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: but you don't get to decide the rules or to make up terms for the rest
Nither do you so get over it and respect my opinion over your head.
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Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: Nither do you
Maybe I don't and I certainly don't claim to be making the rules here, but the majority do - it's majority rules here - and the majority have decided.Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: respect my opinion
Respect is earned. You do not get respect just because you demand it.
The majority of people who post in this forum take the time to help others by posting links to the spam posters, and the messages they post. You seem to have this misconception that you are covering all the edge cases and that you don't need to follow other peoples example, based on very simplistic and flawed reasoning. Suppose we accept that someone has "spam waved" and that they have a bunch of messages in the lounge and you only give us the user. Great, we remove the messages in the lounge - however, because you have been lazy, we don't see that this user has also posted messages at the end of some articles so we don't know that we have to go and clean those up as well. That is why we provide the links, it's not because we enjoy copying and pasting links here.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: by posting links to the spam posters
In our case it was a spam wave where the spammer posted over than 10 posts at a time so should I post 10 links
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Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: posted over than 10 posts at a time so should I post 10 links
No, in the very worst case it is enough with a maximum of 8 links. Usually it is enough with 3 links, because the spammers mostly post forum messages and/or QA messages. If you go to the user's profile (before he get nuked) you can copy the link to sections that are not empty (those lists are in the under the profile-image and there are max 7)
With that links it doesn't matter if he had posted 5, 10 or 100 messages. That is a dynamic query of the site to his history. The advantage is, that history remains active and clickable to find the rest of the messages, even if the user is already banned.
EXAMPLE
This user is already banned: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=10144976[^]
This is the list of his answers: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=10144976[^]
If the user had posted 100 spam messages, we could still access the list and see how many of them are still alive, and then clean up until it gets to "0 results" (as this example)
That's why we post those extra links.
I hope you can see the usefull aspect of that. It is not a question of "who has it bigger" and you "must" do this or that, you can do whatever you consider appropiate, but if you care about CP and the quality of the site enough to start reporting spam here, then please do it in that way. It is just a question of efficiency and to make it easier for the rest to clean the mess.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 21-Feb-14 4:34am.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: someone who keeps getting banned
Keep getting banned because i get reported by same number of people over and over and over nothing changed and this is called anti democracy.
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Reported 
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I closed the article, the member [^]still needs some kicks.
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He's gone now.
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