Spam in Events Calender too

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Message visionthing P beers 7980 º places 793 º 04:18 Thu 8/3/2017 Seems to be several "events" like this in the calender: https://www.ratebeer.com/event/52748/
Message CH-303 P beers 4551 º places 137 º 05:37 Thu 8/3/2017 Is nothing sacred?
Message adamnowek beers 7153 º places 117 º 06:31 Thu 8/3/2017 There should be a button on events (and forum posts) to submit them for review as spam.
Message DCLawyer beers 3007 º places 236 º 08:17 Thu 8/3/2017 And here I was looking forward to attending Yahoo marketing events.

Message Sledutah P beers 11316 º places 959 º 10:38 Thu 8/3/2017 Thanks, I deleted several entries.
Message BeardedAvenger P beers 7354 º places 596 º 15:17 Thu 8/3/2017 This could well be one: https://www.ratebeer.com/Events-Detail.asp?EventID=52366
Message Oakes P admin beers 30719 º places 1135 º 15:19 Thu 8/3/2017 Crap. This looks like some PR company (or similar) is getting paid to stuff their clients’ stuff into event listings across the Internet. And we’re on the list. I wonder if we can see IP addresses for whoever posted these. But of course we also want them deleted asap.
Message visionthing P beers 7980 º places 793 º 01:50 Fri 8/4/2017 ....and just when the calendar looked clean and decent again, more is added:

Message visionthing P beers 7980 º places 793 º 09:47 Thu 8/10/2017 It keeps coming:
Message Sledutah P beers 11316 º places 959 º 10:56 Thu 8/10/2017 Deleted a bunch of them.