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Recently we had a spammer from Russia that must have come in during the night time, when most of our moderators are safetly tucked up in bed.

The board I am a moderator on is based in the US and has moderators all around the globe, that way we have a "Follow the Sun" policy to avoid spammers nipping in like that one did.

Am not sure of our global reach on TIBB, but when more moderators are appointed, maybe if we have some over seas posters, we could have this "Follow the Sun" approach.

Another thing we do over there is that any newbie who has less than a certain number of posts, who tries to post any links, has their post put in a moderation queue visible only to moderators and administrators. One of my jobs over there is to pick these posts up and decide if it is legitimate and therefore approved, or a spammer, leading to the deletion of the post, issuing a permaban and reporting the IP address.

If the software is not already set, maybe it can be setup to work the sameway to catch the spammers. As this is Vbulletin and the other board is Vbulletin it should be easy to do.