Saving Posts of Spammers

[Steve Freides]

Background: I need a better "audit trail" of what happens in the process of removing spam users.

I want:

to preserve whatever information appears in my approval queue and on my screen when I see something like "username 87 times, IP 3 times"

to preserve the post of a new user who, having made it through registration, now is attempting to post spam.

Why: Because the process sometimes gets rid of people who later protest to me, and ask me why they were banned. I would like evidence as to why they were banned in order to be able to explain them, but also in order to evaluate if I wish to reverse the decision and grant them provisional membership.

I am interested whatever is out there in the way of add-ons (or features I have overlooked in the base product) that gets me this kind of complete information any time a user is banned. NB: The add-on I used under XF 1 did much of this for me, and I miss it.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

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[ibrian]

You could use the "Reject with reason" option and simply paste in the information you have.

 

[Steve Freides]

Thanks for your reply.

You could use the "Reject with reason" option and simply paste in the information you have.

That tells them, but does it preserve the information for me? (And if so, where?)

Thanks again.

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[Ozzy47]

Why not just use https://YOURSITE.com/admin.php?logs/spam-trigger/

 

[Steve Freides]

Because I didn't know about it - I will investigate and report back. Thank you very much.

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[Steve Freides]

I'm back - both the spam logs contain helpful information. Thank you again, @Ozzy47.

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[Ozzy47]

Not a problem, glad to help.