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  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Rampant Recycler
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  • J_B
    J_B Posts: 6,819 Forumite
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    fermi wrote: »
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    I'm not a twitter user, but can you post back to tell them they are talking out of their ar5e!

    :mad:
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Rampant Recycler
    On my boards alone, since midnight last night, spambots have posted 498 threads. :(

    And still going...
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  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    edited 25 June 2015 at 9:01AM
    In fact - I am now starting to speculate that this spam isn't just piggybacking for Google ratings. I'm now wondering if this is a deliberate form of attack (rather than an accidental byproduct iyswim) and someone somewhere is deliberately attacking MSE this way - hoping to get "bought off" from the attack.

    Could an MSE poster have joined as an "ordinary poster" a while back and decided to play a waiting game in that role and put up some ordinary posts and then head for MSE with an attack like this?
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    ^^^ Could be, but it seems to me all MSE needs to do is employ a night shift spam spotter and to delete immediately. They may be very busy, but the shift would pass quickly.
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • roddydogs
    roddydogs Posts: 7,479 Forumite
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    Why is this only MSE? I wont mention another very popular blog website, but it dosent have any!
  • Ebe_Scrooge
    Ebe_Scrooge Posts: 7,320 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    This is getting ridiculous. Surely the simplest way is to allow new users 1 post only, and they can't make further posts until the first one has been reviewed. Yes it'll be an overhead for the admins, but surely much less of an overhead than dealing with the hundreds of spam posts ? And any spammer gets their email address permanently blocked.
  • Gingernutty
    Gingernutty Posts: 3,769 Forumite
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    I googled the website that's being promoted by these spammers and all I got were page after page of forums which had been spammed.

    We weren't even in the top two pages.

    It's not just us, it seems to be the entire internet being blitzed by these barstewards.
    :huh: Don't know what I'm doing, but doing it anyway... :huh:
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    They are after Google/search engine rankings boost for their sites or scams, so they will "spread it around" as much as possible.
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  • Ebe_Scrooge
    Ebe_Scrooge Posts: 7,320 Forumite
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    fermi wrote: »
    They are after Google/search engine rankings boost for their sites or scams, so they will "spread it around" as much as possible.


    Ah, I did wonder what their motive was, thanks for the info :-)
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