Got a spam discussion from this IP address. That’s 2 that I deleted recently. Didn’t save the IP address of the first one. Might have been the same ip.
89.39.213.158
I deleted a couple in the last month. They aren’t frequent enough to worry about, I think.
I’ve been deleting quite a few recently. Maybe 1 or 2 a week?
Are both of you deleting just the discussion, or are you deleting the user also. I’ve been deleting the user and any discussions associated with them.
I ban the user and delete the discussion
I’ve recently deleted the following users for posting advertisements or other non Codea related info.
89.39.213.232
89.39.81.16
89.40.203.23
93.117.174.54
188.208.111.251
93.113.159.179
EDIT: If you look at the Members link above and sort by IP address, you’ll see that there are a lot of ip addresses that begin with the first 3 numbers of the ones above. I don’t know if these are users just waiting to post trash or they just got in to look around.
I’ve had a complaint from a forum user about a spam post that was porn-y (“hot camera boys”). Another mod must’ve taken it down as I didn’t see the post itself. I deleted another one about “Brazilian girls”. Could be an issue given that kids access the site.
Is there really no facility on Vanilla forums to have a “answer this question to continue” option when people sign up? It could be something very basic about Codea, to encourage people to at least open the documentation first. “What command sets the colour of text in Codea?” or something.
Also, just noticed that the wiki appears to have been maliciously edited. The last link is spam https://bitbucket.org/TwoLivesLeft/core/wiki/Home
The edit seems to be by some other service calling itself Codea:
It was added in March. I’ve deleted it from the wiki.
This was the user:
https://bitbucket.org/codeatechnologies/profile/repositories
Can’t see a way on BitBucket to report a user.
We used to approve users, but the problem is deciding if a new user is a spammer
A spammer, assuming they’re not just bots, is unlikely to have bought Codea or have the wherewithal to look something up in the reference. But it should be possible to automate it. “How do you set the width of lines in Codea?” then a fuzzy match on “strokewidth”.
I’m not sure what options there are, but if it’s mainly one group doing it, they will quickly find the answer. You could put a code on the welcome page of Codea that functions as our captcha, I suppose.
I don’t think things are bad at all. I only delete 1 or 2 things a week, if that often. I remember when I used to delete hundreds of things a day. If I remember correctly, one time I had to delete almost a thousand spams thru the course of a day.
Ah well, it gives you something to do 
I’ve been deleting about one a day recently
Just delete 3 adds/users this morning. Deleted 2 yesterday. I guess it isn’t too bad as long as we can stay ahead of them. They seem to be from a mixture of ip addresses, but repeating.
I think we need to go back to vetting users. In the past week, I’ve seen two sexually inappropriate spam posts. I suspect the same person is posting as a new user every day.
We don’t have many new users, so vetting shouldn’t be a burden.
The spammer I am seeing is always registered at gmx.com
FYI, @Simeon
@Ignatz Why do you get all the sexually inappropriate spams. All I get are stupid ads.
EDIT: I just deleted a makeup ad.
The last one was for camgirls