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)"
That might be too hard even for "legal" newbies.
If you just tell them what to put in the blank, you could let the bots hammer away at the CAPTCHA and they'd never get it right.
Alternatively you could ask really, really simple questions like What does the B in BLF stand for.
budget
budgets
:D i win!
I don't think the CAPTCHA was working a few hours ago. I posted twice and either I ignored it or did not see the math question, but my comments were still posted. I do see it now though and it is working.
We sure did get hammered this morning! Everything is all out of whack and recent posts from last night are literally burried in pages of old posts. I hope Sb can put everything back in order for us.
That's what always happens to me (no CAPTCHA), as I have the BLF cookie set to 'protected' (i. e. never to be deleted), so that I don't need to log-in every time I return to this forum.
what about do a golpe and elect kreisler as new admin? he is so active to block the spam first that the bots to their dirty job xD
joking ur job is really appreciated sb, ty :)
golpe? you mean coup d'eta? i am always asleep when the spammer do their attacks. missed them all. when i wake up at noon :D all spammers already killed. and it looks that you guys had a lotta fun counter attacking them.
:)
Regarding the math question: instead of being asked one time every session wouldn't it be better to get a question lets say every 10th post? This way the robots probably will come to a halt and the manual spammer will get slowed down.
Since most of us don't make more than 10 posts a day the hassle for the average user should be minimal.
Just a thought...