How do I report spam?

4 messages in general galleries re: JADE are spam messages.
I marked one as spam, left the other 3. new user.

In the upper right corner of the message, there's a grey frowny face button. You can click it to report the spam message. Sadly, doing so doesn't indicate in any way that it's been flagged, so everyone else has to endure seeing the message until it's removed. I had already flagged those four. Sometimes, I (and others) post a message saying it's been reported. I don't always think to do that, though.

The report feature can definitely be useful, especially for the more descrete spammers. We try very hard as moderator's to not let spam posts linger very long.

On a side note, posting in spam threads can prove to be more work than it helps because depending on which clean-up process is chosen it could mean not deleting the thread and leaving only posts about spam with the spam post deleted. I hope that makes at least some sense.

Backing up what Talae said, it's best to just hit the report button (at top right of the post) on a spam post rather than respond to it, especially if the spammer is resurrecting an old thread (aka thread necro). There's a bunch of reasons for this, which boil down to: we find them faster and they're easier to clean up if no one responds to them.

If you're in a thread and see a spam post, please report it, that helps. But don't open up a thread just to report spam, as that's not needed.

As for spammers making multiple posts (which seems to be happening a lot lately), the same guidance applies: if you're in a thread and see a spam post report it, but no need to go hunting as we'll get them shortly. (FYI, the forum has a function that allows us to delete all posts in one go, something that gets used with prejudice where multi-posting spammers are concerned.)

p.s Good questions, BTW.

Now you mentioned that small grey button, I'll use that in the future.
like you guys, I hate spam and I do like to assist by advising you ASAP.

Thanks for the info

Egads now I feel stupid. Saw several yesterday that got a post from me. Wish I had known, (or remembered) that button. Sorry for my error.

No problem - blame the spammers for their cunning attempts at drawing people in. Even us mods don't always spot the dodgy posts right away.
One of the reasons we work to keep the forums spam free is so people can be relaxed reading and posting here and not worry that someone may be trying to trick them. So don't worry and keep posting

I noticed a bunch the other day, reported like 6 but didn't go to all the threads who's last post shared the same name. IIRC the mods have the ability to purge all the posts from a name, and frankly I didn't have it in me to go into the other like 5 threads.

It is my morning ritual to use the quick links at the top right of the pages to just go to the next new message. Don't really check the header I guess. Maybe I am one of those mindless zombies I hear about all the time.

Most days I only check a few of the sections. Since I'm not currently building (actually have never built) looking up building tips starts to get old so things like that end up getting ignored.

This is true. We take care of SPAM based at the user level and not the post level. If we didn't, it would allow for repeat offenders.