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magicode
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Joined: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:19 pm Posts: 496
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 Weird Spam
What's up with all the weird spam lately? It's not linking to any website as far as I can tell. Are these people just trolling? Or is it a ploy to get post count up so they can spam later?
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vnguyen
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Joined: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:44 am Posts: 442 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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 Re: Weird Spam
It's a ploy to spam later AND they're smarter. I've noticed this trend a few weeks back where I let a strange (but slightly relevant) post go... only to find they edited their signature and post later to add spam. Or they go on a wild spamming rampage when we least expect it (middle of the night).
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mightor
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Joined: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:14 am Posts: 3654 Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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 Re: Weird Spam
Yeah, and updated posts don't show up as unread, so they manage to get through the cracks. If you see weird spam, just report the post and either Vu or myself will deal with it.
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Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:35 am |
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NeXT-Generation
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Joined: Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:13 pm Posts: 630 Location: If I told you, I'd have to kill you.
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 Re: Weird Spam
Anybody notice the weird usernames of some spammers? Some of them are just plain obnoxious. I remember one was called "RobotKilla#something else I can't remember". And then when it was banned, there was a "RobotKilla#I'mBack". How dare it talk about killing robots on a forum like this!  The nerve!  Anybody else noticed weird names?
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Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:58 pm |
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DiMastero
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Joined: Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:15 am Posts: 181
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 Re: Weird Spam
Yeah they're quite obnoxious :/ Made me wonder: can mods ban people by IP to keep them away for a bit longer? Or is that privacy intrusion?
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Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:23 pm |
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magicode
Moderator
Joined: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:19 pm Posts: 496
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 Re: Weird Spam
You can ban a specific IP, but dynamically allocated ip addresses make it easy to bypass this.
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Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:41 pm |
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mightor
Site Admin
Joined: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:14 am Posts: 3654 Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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 Re: Weird Spam
Banning IPs is pointless.
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