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Is it possible to block spamming url's?

ahmd is back and i have a little question about this problem.

is it possible to block the domains he's posting all over ifixit ?

(like automatic changing the url's after submitting to a different wone (maybe ifixit.com))

i think that i dont have to post the adresses here again, they will be all over ifixit within the next hours.

i have no problems with his (or any) religion - but i hate it when someone tries to annoy others with his religion (or other stuff he's believing in)

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This is clearly spam, and we've removed everything. Just flag posts like this (like you did) and the system will automatically take care of it.

Rate limiting helps tremendously with issues like this. He can't post hundreds of items because the system won't let him. He only got 6 posts up before we caught him.

I've banned 'ahmed' permanently. We're also watching his IP in case he sets up a new account.

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Why don't you just set up an IP ban?

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that makes not much sense with dynamic ip's. but ahmd is back again.

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Yeah he's back, but already flagged ;-) Now let's see who's faster he, spamming, or we, flagging!

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No seriously, why hasn't his account been deleted and why not just IP ban? Dynamic addressing just affects local hosts anyways.

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there are "workarounds" if the ip would be banned - ahmd is pestering webpages for years (you can find thousands of entries with google). anyway - "censoring" his standard text or better - the url's would most probably stop him. but surely - we can handle this problem with flagging and and deleting.

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