Kitchen Spam

Arachne_2

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

If you Google "kitchen spam", you will see that they are hitting a variety of websites and no one seems to know what to do about it.

Some people say it is a bot from the far east, but a dodgy, dangerous kitchen provider called Vance may be the kitchen seller.

I am not sure whether this might help:

"Dear Garmin

Please install a forum anti-spam mod. They are free and will virtually eliminate all these kitchen spam posts. The one you want hooks up with the www.stopforumspam.com spam database. Other VBulletin forums use it. I use the Invision Power Board version at my forums and get NO SPAM.

Pretty sure what you are after is here:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...=stopforumspam

Thanks"

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?37062-Please-install-forum-anti-spam-mod

We have the StopForumSpam plugin installed on our vBulletin forum, and it works well. Our spam volume's definitely decreased since installing it.

I'd highly recommend it if it's not installed here already.

Kitchen spammers just started up again BTW, they must be night owls!

gb12345

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

The jury is still out on whether they are paid people or spambots, but they have been hitting US sites too:

I don't think they can be spambots - if you look at some of the posts, you will see that they get edited (presumably when they see the URL or phone number has been hidden by the spam filter).

Dexters_Indignation

We will fight them on the beaches

PlutoinCapricorn

We may have turned the tide: there were only a handful this morning.

I miss them now!

Sagaris

More again this morning - they MUST be good kitchens if the only way they can get rid of them is to spam these boards!

torbrex

I know I called the thread 'Kitchen Spam' but these posts have nothing to do with kitchens, they are all about the spam element.

I also notice that some folk have gone out of their way to find out who is behind the posts, again that is not the point, I want to see MSE doing its utmost to stop them as arguing on the phone with the organiser will only mean to him that his campaign is working and that the message is getting through.

I have also stopped clicking the button on kitchen spam posts that have been bumped, everyone knows that they are spam so why bring them back to the top of the boards and searches :mad:
There is nothing worse than to open a bumped thread only to find that I have laready hit the button

torbrex

It must be Saturday :mad:

Sadly some of the spammers have discovered that they can start more than 1 thread with each username and are venturing on to boards that heve previously got off lightly