The idea's been floating around for a while now, and now's the time to enact it. I think we all tire of the threads of Meta, and the countless amount of spam flooding up there.

This will be a list of signature spammers: people who post garbage, recycled content, copy & paste, insubstantial replies, or anything else that would be a detriment to the forum. I'll be using something similar to mexxer-2's thread of "Known alts" for a layout. I would also like to note that long-worded posts can also be spam if they have no relevance to the conversation or recycle ideas and repeat things over and over again. The list will include past spammers, but note the date of the reference. If they have started to post better content again, a snippet will be added to their notes upon notification. A lot of how what is considered spam IS subjective, but it should be pretty obvious to the majority of people if something is spam or not. Usually, burst posting (many posts within a short time frame) is a sure bet sign of spamming. Post history will be marked with a number to show the number of posts they have at the point of reference.

(The initial list is a few spammers I've compiled, from other threads or what have you. I will obviously be missing a grand chunk, so please add more! I will also be aiming to add more to the list somewhat regularly)

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	|	Username	|	Reference	|	Submitted by	|	Notes	|
	|	kahir	|	Re: Illiterate sig spammers	|	rizzlarolla	|	No signature, word for word copying	|
	|	CryingMidget	|	Re: Illiterate sig spammers	|	rizzlarolla	|	No signature, long recycled content	|
	|	twa	|	Re: Account Bans	|	rizzlarolla	|	Likely purchased, 52 month long hiatus	|
	|	Hide_ip112	|	Re: Known spammers: User generated	|	rizzlarolla	|	Also general spammer	|
	|	xiao9527	|	Re: Known spammers: User generated	|	rizzlarolla	|	Chinese poster	|
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	|	Username	|	Reference	|	Submitted by	|	Notes	|
	|	johnnyyash	|	Post history (67)	|	rizzlarolla	|	Posts within bursts	|
	|	Totalrefund	|	Banned for "insubstantial posts + sig ad" - TotalreturnFund	|	Themself (alt)	|	Previously banned, posts are still questionable, bitvest signature	|
	|	traderethereum	|	Post history (97)	|	Myself	|	Lots of posts on spam threads	|
	|	chixka000	|	Post history (567)	|	Myself	|	Posts are sent within a few minutes of each other	|
	|	dunfida	|	Post history (467)	|	Myself	|	Posts are within a few minutes of each other, clearly spam	|
	|	Hide_ip112	|	Post history (300)	|	Myself	|	Loves to quote and agree, adding pointless information	|
	|	lite	|	Post history (1610)	|	Myself	|	Part of FortuneJack campaign, agrees often, quotes always	|
	|	Positid	|	Post history (818)	|	Myself	|	Multiple lines of rehashed content, worthless to "discussion" in threads	|
	|	YuginKadoya	|	Post history (1550)	|	Myself	|	In bitvest.io campaign, repeatedly posts on same megathreads	|
	|	ShrykeZ	|	Post history (628, page 2)	|	Anonymous	|	User makes pointless comments in spam threads, agrees or disagrees	|
	|	apollofire	|	Post history (157)	|	Anonymous	|	Politics & Society make up 87% of posts, responds with general comments	|
	|	Javi_Anibarro	|	Post history (121)	|	Anonymous	|	Mostly off-topic, no signature campaign	|
	|	catch.me.if.you.can	|	Post history (602, page 2)	|	Anonymous	|	Copies long paragraphs and sources, or writes one line of useless content	|
	|	Bitcoinpro	|	Post history (2903)	|	Anonymous	|	Trolly behavior found in both one-liners and longer posts	|
	|	Ewinsane	|	Post history (105)	|	Anonymous	|	"Agrees" often, posted 10 times in 15 minutes	|
	|	skysblu	|	Post history (56)	|	Your Point is Invalid	|	"Agrees" often, posts short pointless replies	|
	|	TraderETH	|	Post history (304)	|	Anonymous	|	General comments, no substance	|
	|	LegendaryMiner	|	Post history (278)	|	Anonymous	|	All one-liners across 3+ pages, no substance, posted 4 times in 10 minutes, Decent Foundation signature	|
	|	pearnapple	|	Post history (596)	|	Anonymous	|	"Agree" posts, one-liners for 200+ posts, posted 6 times in 11 minutes, IDSOption signature	|
	|	Script3d	|	Post history (139)	|	Anonymous	|	Posts two replies within 4-6 minutes, insubstantial one-liners morphed into multiple lines, IDSOption signature	|
	|	deadpoolx	|	Post history (490)	|	Anonymous	|	General one-liners, posted 3 times in 8 minutes, Decent Foundation signature	|
	|	dmarine	|	Post history (62)	|	Anonymous	|	One-liners, posts excessively: 3 times in 8 minutes, 4 times in 8 minutes	|
	|	Cloverdale	|	Post history (346)	|	Anonymous	|	Recycled content, "feedback", answering an answered question, vague posts	|
	|	dezoel	|	Post history (2460)	|	Anonymous	|	Recycled, one-liners, agree posts, same as always	|
	|	awesome31312	|	Post history (2145)	|	Anonymous	|	Lots of useless crap, 3 posts within 4 minutes! :O	|
	|	hurain	|	Re: If I have multiple accounts, whether it will be banned?	|	Myself	|	One-liner central, absolutely worthless posts	|
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Awaiting input on these users:

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If there are any complaints or suggestions for anything that could make the list better, please reply or PM me. If there's something on the list that you don't like, feel free to respond with reasons of why. Hopefully, now we won't get all that spam in Meta. However, any post that vaguely talks about how this list is good or will help in some way will be removed. That does not contribute to this. Only add someone, suggest how to make it better, or refute a spammer status.

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Layout for submission:

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Spam types:

Recycled content: This is the big one. This is the most common one and likely to crossover through all the spammers on the list. Recycled content means that the user is not contributing any more to the discussion than there already is - you are using previous ideas, or content that has (or may have) been stated in the past, or are saying something that is common sense and obvious. For example, if you're just "agreeing" with somebody. That's worthless to the topic. A lot of spammers try to reply with seemingly constructive content with multiple lines, but in reality it's just recycled.

Spam thread: Posting mostly or solely on spam megathreads (which are the threads with vague titles and simple replies, you know which they are) is a basis for spam. There is no discussion to be had there, or if there was, it would've been long completed within the first 3 pages or less. Anything further than that is completely worthless and the reply should not be counted as constructive. This can be applied to multi-line content.

Copy & paste: Copying someone's content from elsewhere; plagiarism; paraphrasing someone's words from earlier in the topic or somewhere from the internet

One-liners: One line of text, usually agreeing, saying something that has already been said, or bringing up a worthless question or pointless statement. Note that worthless content can be rehashed in multiple lines to seem like it's relevant, but in reality is not.

Important to note: If the user appears to have simply read the title and posted without at the very least skimming through the earlier replies, that should be considered as spam. There is no effort there to try and be constructive but not repetitious, and that should not be condoned. This however would have to apply multiple times.

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