I suggest implementing a "mark as spam" button near each post on the forum. After a post has gathered x spam marks, someone on the team should get an email, suggesting the deletion of said post. The post itself might also be added to the email, in order to simplify the decision.
Is it spam ? Or message at the wrong place ?
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-do-you-run-android-app-ubuntu-platform
https://trisquel.info/en/users/jaden
https://trisquel.info/en/users/sdggasa/track
https://trisquel.info/en/users/zzfxe/track
https://trisquel.info/en/users/alayna44
The web design thread seems to be a real spam magnet, perhaps it could be locked.
https://trisquel.info/en/users/melissa34 -- sh*t, they are learning to talk like us.
https://trisquel.info/en/users/jennifermethow
https://trisquel.info/en/users/celina
spammer https://trisquel.info/en/users/zeemangel759
https://trisquel.info/en/users/zeemangel759
https://trisquel.info/en/users/windwade
https://trisquel.info/en/users/esdsdatacenter/track
https://trisquel.info/en/users/scarlettjack
https://trisquel.info/en/users/dsdgsdg4/track
https://trisquel.info/en/users/sopnildj12111
https://trisquel.info/en/users/jimmyanderson49
https://trisquel.info/en/users/adriana
In its only post, https://trisquel.info/fr/users/fabien proposes us to buy driving licenses and diplomas from all over the world: https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/acheter-un-vrai-permis-de-conduire-fran%C3%A7ais
Strangely, although the post was removed, the forum still shows the last post in the thread as being from anikalisa66.
EDIT: For some reason the attachment link doesn't work, go to https://trisquel.info/files/issues/spam.png.
https://trisquel.info/en/users/anikalisa66
https://trisquel.info/en/users/ninabradley23
jamiejayce only published one advertisement in the troll hole.
Pretty old: http://trisquel.info/en/users/john2004
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/now-there-can-be-get-quick-cash-loans
https://trisquel.info/en/users/rampal726
https://trisquel.info/en/users/anikaprince663
https://trisquel.info/en/users/davidlara
https://trisquel.info/en/users/karlosmorgan
Oh my... after knowing today my first patent/trademark troll and losing faith in humanity a bit, I almost left this... "enlightened soul" stay. Almost.
https://trisquel.info/fr/users/lit0 only wrote one single spam message in English on the French forum: https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/here-practical-explanation-about-next-life-purpose-human-life-philosophicalreligious-facts-the
https://trisquel.info/en/users/sanwatson
https://trisquel.info/en/users/redspider
sidonie_4563 ( https://trisquel.info/fr/users/sidonie4563 ) has just created an account to post this spam on the French-speaking forum: https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/diff%C3%A9rents-soucis-avec-mon-pc
https://trisquel.info/en/users/angila14
About osman, I think as David does.
@David, please read the following --> https://trisquel.info/en/issues/10945#comment-48708 and let me know what you think.
@antiesnob: I meant the problem with checking updates to already existing wiki pages easily: since the pages are not new, they don't appear in the listings for new content, and the tracking page for each user is language-sentisitve as noted.
About osman2014, I don't think he's a spammer, I guess English is just not his primary language and he tried to get help in the most recently created forum thread at the time.
This user https://trisquel.info/es/users/stephaniestep. Made an English message in a Spanish thread. At the end of it, there's a spam link...
This is the thread:
https://trisquel.info/es/forum/openmailboxorg#comment-48372
David, do you mean that we cannot see the items of the tracking from an overlooked user?
@ssdclickofdeath, you forgot to change the status. I'm doing it for you.
The comment this user (https://trisquel.info/en/users/osman2014/track) made is very hard to understand and is probably spam.
Great!
We should add a "SPAM KILLER TEAM" to the Trisquel staff!!! LOL! (:p
Heh, what a flurry of activity from the spamhunters team :-)
Gibsonmargarita was in fact overlooked (probably because of the issue with the language-specific wiki edits in the tracking page), the account is now blocked. I say blocked and not deleted, because since some months ago, we've started blocking spammer accounts (and unpublishing their contents), since some changes to the site diminished their frequency of appearance, and blocking them makes them unable to use the same email address again (which is more frequent that you'd think).
The other recent spammers have been blocked as well.
As always, thanks a lot for the work you do, particularly with those hard to notice places like rogue edits to legit wiki pages.
@Cyberhawk No. this spam is not recently. It is from 08, Oct 2011. But IT IS A WIKI PAGE!!!!
Forget all my other messages. This is the one that counts... Sorry.
This user https://trisquel.info/en/users/gibsonmargarita changed a wiki page to write spam. This is the wiki https://trisquel.info/es/wiki/slaine. You can check the "revisions" tab.
I think this is a totally unacceptable case of spam as it interfers with documentation and users knowledge and atraction to Trisquel. Maybe we should think on another way to get rid of this kind of spammers as a court case or something like that. I'm not on the legislation world so clearly I don't know what to do.
I know that's something difficult if this users are anonym.
David, the user "gibsonmargarita" was already reported by lembas. Maybe, the user was deleted and a dummy one created. Check that before deleting it.
Perhaps, we should make a database of spammers, so we can keep track of our dummy users.