Does that gravedigger function really work ? I mean the re-burying of spammed threads. For example this thread has a post from 02/05/2012 at the end. Therefore it shouldn't be on starting page 2 between posts from 03/09/201.
Most of the time it works... but as you have pointed out the system isn't perfect. I think it would be okay to bump any of the threads that got buried.
If there is a general glitch, the starting pages can easily become useless... even with that spam protection in place. It would be interesting to know under which circumstances it works and under which it doesn't.
I think the way it works is that thread dates only get reset when Mr. Admin deletes the user rather than when they get blocked by Mark as Spam votes.
I think so too. But quick user moderation stops it from affecting hundreds of posts and instead is just a few scattered posts.
SPAM attack this morning at around 6:45 am (Central Standard US) lasted just a couple of minutes before we smoked the Spammer. Before I could look at the name to post here, posts were gone. I only had to mark about 10 posts. Seems to be working pretty effectively.
That was fun! I only had to mark about 5.
Yeah took a break from posting for a few minutes to go Spam hunting - success! 
One problem though, he/she has moved some old threads to the front page. Even though the spammer's gone, those old threads remain there
OK, you guys are right, my manual testing apparently uses a standard comment un-publish function that worked correctly. The community moderated approach uses an un-publish mechanism that apparently has a bug. I filed a bug report, we'll see what comes of it.
sb, thanks for your efforts to keep this place spam and bug free :)
Thanks... hopefully the Drupal/plugins-team is quick to implement that function.
THANKS!!!
Looks like the captca measures are working.
Yesterday I needed to verify my post by solving a math problem, and just now I accidentally pressed the "SAVE" button twice and got some kind of warning.
How can I tell my wife that the Gucci handbag purchase is canceled? 
Damnit, I missed the bloodbath! 
Good job guys! 
ty very much mister admin!
Time to make the math equations harder?
I still say add handbag to the list of swear words...that would have broken half the links in that last post
I wonder if they will eventually avoid us, since their posts disappear, or if there are so many that they'll never notice....
This is not working. 3 major spam attacks last night. We can stop them within 10-20 minutes, but they can get 100 posts in before enough people mark them. There needs to be a stronger barrier up front.
I don't know if it would be possible, but I saw one forum where they had a CAPTCHA of blurry text, but the instructions said to ignore the CAPTCHA and just enter the word human. Or something like that. Even if spammers are using humans to register, they probably don't speak English, so simple questions are better than blurry text or math.
simple questions for flashaholics, not just general simple questions. something like "which is d. chow's company? (***rs****s)"