What's up with all the spam posts?
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@Luke said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
I don't get it either. even for SEO purposes it would have to include links. Stuff like that is/was sometimes used to discredit the competition. You put spam links from you competion everywhere so that google punishes them by ranking their websites lower. But without links it doesn't make sense. Also, google became smarter and ignores such methods now.
Charlie wants to destroy us!
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Stop taking credit for my work Bill.
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Ch-arl-ina
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@Luke said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
All the spam-bots seem to have female names. As a precautionary measure, we should therefore block all users with female names, except for @Jennifer of course. Just kidding.
Amazoniac says I’m sponsored by Applegate so I don’t know if that makes me just as spammy as the barbie-bots, but I think I can fly under the radar if I change my handle to ChiseledJawChadDrivesBigTruck.
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Totally happy to make changes if there's a consensus among mods and users. Seems like an easy fix would be to rate limit first day new threads to something like 3.
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@brad said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
Seems like an easy fix would be to rate limit first day new threads to something like 3.
It could do the job. OK for me.
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@brad said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
Totally happy to make changes if there's a consensus among mods and users. Seems like an easy fix would be to rate limit first day new threads to something like 3.
It seems like the spam has stopped anyway knock on wood or I missed it. But sounds like a good idea.
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A limit of 3 new threads for the first day is a very generous compromise and it will get the job done.
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Well so much for the idea that the the spam was only going to be 200 new posts at a go.
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*006 behaviour. Imposter!
Please ignore/block them for now. I'll clean them up when I'm at a bigger screen.
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I liked the basketball engraving machine better than the pellet machine.
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@Luke said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
I liked the basketball engraving machine better than the pellet machine.
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Why can't membership to the forum be more difficult to get so that only humans can enter?
In time there is life but no knowledge; outside time there is knowledge but no life
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The laziness is insane.
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@jamezb46 Or as someone said before hand... litterally cap the posts for a new account to a few posts and comments for the first day. If a real account wants to post more, he or she can wait a day, it's not deep.
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@alfredoolivas said in What's up with all the spam posts?:
@jamezb46 Or as someone said before hand... litterally cap the posts for a new account to a few posts and comments for the first day. If a real account wants to post more, he or she can wait a day, it's not deep.
Another vicious bot attack this morning @brad'ster. If this is possible I think it's a good idea.
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@ThinPicking Hell, even restrict the amount of comments and posts an account can make within the first 2 hours of creation!
The most notorious spam accounts will create all their spam within an hour and never login again afterwards.
For example, yori007 was created, made a bunch of mess within the first hour of creation, and didn't log back in after the first hour
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I sense a little emphasis on machines here.
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It's quite fascinating really. This. This is the plan apparently.
