Dealing with Spammers...

I have just had the mispleasure of going through dealing with 150 spam postings that came in from one user over the course of a few days.

I read the other day about a website that turned spammers profiles into pictures of frogs, which sounds quite a good idea.

I wondered if anyone had any good ideas or had seen a particularly novel treatment for spammers on another site?

These people waste so much time and make it very hard for a site to grow without paid (rather than volunteered) moderation because the more posts a site has the more spam it attracts. For every extra 10% of genuine popularity a site gets its spam interest level goes up about a 100% which makes it almost impossible for a site like this to grow.

Re : Dealing with Spammers

I like the frog idea

Maybe you could turn them into a troll or something?

Re : Dealing with Spammers

Can't you moderate the sign ups instead. I should think most spamming is from autobots anyway?
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Re : Dealing with Spammers

Captcha perhaps?!
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