fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I think this new user needs 'deleting' or exterminating ?
Spammer
- Thread starter fossyant
- Start date
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wakemalcolm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ratho
I reported the first couple and tagged in the mods.
Probably best just to put the source on ignore in the meantime.
Probably best just to put the source on ignore in the meantime.
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I've reported user and posts, going to keep the mods busy. Cheeky little bugger had actually made a few 'real' posts in August.
nogoodnamesleft
Senior Member
What makes no sense to me is that although it's probably just BOTs, setting-up, running, etc. takes resources and from the content of what is SPAMmed does it ever generate any responses from any of the probably hundreds of furums being attecked?
When links are included in the posts it makes more sense as it's an indirect way to improve Google Search ranks (where 3rd party sites reference your site/page(s), but the posts being SPAMmed now don't contain links.
nb to get referrer search engine ranking improvement best technique is to make loads of innocent posts over time that remain undeleted then, edit your "signature" to include your site link and your link sddenly appears on those vast number of pages previously posted.
When links are included in the posts it makes more sense as it's an indirect way to improve Google Search ranks (where 3rd party sites reference your site/page(s), but the posts being SPAMmed now don't contain links.
nb to get referrer search engine ranking improvement best technique is to make loads of innocent posts over time that remain undeleted then, edit your "signature" to include your site link and your link sddenly appears on those vast number of pages previously posted.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Mod note: spammers banned and content deleted.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
I sometimes wonder ... if I was replaced by a spambot would anyone notice?
nogoodnamesleft
Senior Member
Am I right in thinking that technically this thread breaks forum rules? Not permitted to discuss forum moderation?
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
It's not being discussed, it's being requested.
It's not against the rules to alert mods or seek their intervention with an obvious problem.
classic33
Leg End Member
Didn't they have 67 other posts before today?
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
It's not being discussed.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Not sure.
The now banned Users have had their posts deleted in bulk. So, in theory, older posts should have been deleted as part of the clean-up process.
classic33
Leg End Member
Well, they got the bank telephone number wrong anyway.
Also been deleted from a lot of sites this week.
- Location
- Inside my skull
I sometimes wonder ... if I was replaced by a spambot would anyone notice?
Reported