It's probably best not to clutter the Forum with requests for Spam deletion. I'm the contact person for questions and reports and such, so you can contact me by personal message, or by emailing me at joe@mudcat.org

If you know other moderators, you can contact them, too.

But it's probably best not to report Spam until it's been visible for at least four hours. We check Guest messages in the forum several times a day, and routinely delete Spam. Most times when people report Spam to me, it has already been deleted by the time I get to it.

Oh, and there are people who respond to Spam messages in the Forum, and then they get huffy when the Spam was deleted and their response message left remaining, making them look a bit foolish. Then they blame the moderators for being insensitive or something.

So, let it be known: do not respond in the forum to Spam - or, for that matter, to troll messages. Usually, moderators review messages in a list of new messages, not in the context of a thread. So, it's quite likely they may delete a Spam or troll message without seeing your response, thus making you look foolish.

So, in brief, don't worry about Spam. We usually delete it routinely. And if we miss a Spam message or two, it's not the end of the world.

Thanks.

-Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor-