Spam - Delete or move to Trash?

[Katrina]

On your forum, do you delete spam or move it to a Trash forum?

 

[jweb]

On my old forum, I did both at one point. First it was moved to an area that was not visible. Later on it was just deleted.

It just became extra work to quarantine spam and manage it while it was much easier to delete it.

 

[Ravenfreak]

Ironically on Woltlab, you have to move posts to the trash in order to delete them so I kind of do both lol. But I would rather immediately delete them since it looks bad if you keep spam posts for everyone to read them.

 

[TechWiz18]

Spam is definitely not worth keeping active in any capacity on a forum. All it will do is bloat your threads/posts with garage.

 

[Page]

I have a trash category that I move them into 🙂

 

[zappaDPJ]

I rarely get spam on any of the forums I'm involved with but when I do they get moved to trash. This is primarily for audit purposes, a requirement from the forum owner. It's also occasionally useful for tracking rogue members.

 

[PGen98]

I used to archive everything in the old days, because I was a little paranoid about deleting "content," but I haven't done that in years, thankfully. Now spam just gets deleted. It's worthless, it's better off in cyber oblivion.

 

[Deleted member 31696]

Delete it.

 

[Cory]

I delete it, which moves it to the trash can. On Jcink, when you have the trash can set up all deleted topics/posts go there.

 

[Nomad]

I always delete spam posts permanently.

 

[The Raven92]

Depending on the content of the topic. If it's pornography or some copyright violation, than I delete it. If it's a spam topic, just lock and move to garbage.

 

[Page]

would you remove spam accounts or keep them? that's something also!

 

[Felly]

Usually, I would just move it to the archive. Nothing ever really got too wild to the point where I would need to outright delete things, and in the case where something like that was done, I would just delete.

Spam accounts, I'd just ban.

 

[Baw$e]

Permanently delete spam. Maybe notify the user after deletion.

 

[Cam]

We use our anti-spam tool, which soft deletes the content and relocates it to our trash forum.

 

[Deleted member 29780]

We use our anti-spam tool, which soft deletes the content and relocates it to our trash forum.

Yeah same here. Then after like a month I’ll permanently delete them.