I understand what you are saying Izzy and I totally agree with you

At the same time, its very annoying to the regular members of Minti, who join up to be part of a Parenting community, then see new members join, plant a blog promoting something or other, usually not even parenting related then disappear never to be seen again, I have no issue with those that join the site, participate in all things and at the same time blog promoting something they feel strongly about

BUT why should we still have the comments and blogs they make on the site remain if the membersss themselves don't??

Those that make one blog then disappear??????????? Then so should their spam

 Maybe if you could make a button for us to press insted of report that could be used so you can watch people to see if they are just here to advertise or are actually wanting to be part of minti. Make it so once they are "reported" give them a week or so to see if they actually do anything else or even log on again, then email them to see if they actually want to stay part of minti.

Apart from being anoying im sure its taking up bandwith (as I said before) And slowing down minti. 

I my opinion, a spammer is a person or computer program that creates an account for the sole purpose of advertising.

Just like what Zoolooau just mentioned....

There are a lot of accounts being created on a daily basis that only have one blog entry with these links off site. We will only ever see these accounts updating their blog and not contributing to the helpful content of the forum.In my eye, if a member does not ask questions in an attempt to gain advice,  does not answer questions of help with legitimate and sound advice, or contribute to the growing advice pages within a few months of joining up....well their accounts should be either frozen or removed and the owners of these accounts emailed to explain that they failed to meet the blog/forum requirements of genuine participation, and advised to recreate their account if they are going to be serious and participate....rather than advertise and not  contribute.

I really dislike spammers, and will report every single one as often as I find them popping up.....

 There has been 4 "people" who have joined in the past few hours who have just added a blog and a link to another page, is there any way to get rid of them, they are just taking up space hehe

Izzy isn't this making the site go slow with all these people joining tojust add there web page

My understanding this is a parenting site not a site to advertise diy or such like as the last couple of adds have done Yes advertise if it has anything to do with raising a child or asking advise but this is not happening

 I must say I have reported a couple of the people that join just to put on advertisement.

Apart from being anoying arnt they taking up bandwith on your site?

I will ignore them if you want me to, but the people who just join to put a link to another page, seems like spam to me. 

I dont mind if people are actualy active on the site and add stuff about other webpages or there business but the people who just join to link to scam sites i think should be just deleated.