NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP

How did you know I commented here, Nathan? Was it the new email notification!?

I just realize that I could spotlight this

Mr. Mikeska, how might one go about applying for moderator status?

@nathanmikeska that sounds great, thank you very much. I definitely appreciate you showing up when you did yesterday, I was not looking forward to manually removing that many posts!

@Skua Hey, thanks for the quick action yesterday, you guys are great! We've been talking about the issue this morning and we might be making some tweaks... We don't bring out the IP ban often, but for situations like this, I wouldn't hesitate. We can always un-ban the IP if we think we've made a mistake. In my opinion, if IP information indicates that it is highly likely that the garbage is generated by an alt account of another user or someone they know at the same address (friend/sibling/etc), I'd still hand out the IP ban. I'd hesitate on banning their actual account without definitive proof though (unless incidents continue to happen).
We will also look in to some kind of post limiting to help prevent a similar issue in the future. Also, yesterday evening, Andrew said he implemented the ability to auto-remove all posts of a user when banning them (checkbox on the ban page I think, haven't tested it myself). Something that would have been incredibly useful yesterday.... sorry about that.
Once again, thanks for the hard work!

If you're still online: the first spam account shares an IP with two other similar ones, and one proper account. The second one that just posted another twenty or so forums shares an IP with IStoleYourMeme, who upvoted one of the first account's spam posts. How best to go about IP bans, in your view?

Also, any chance of a daily limit on forum posts to prevent something similar happening again?