SPAMMERS NIGHT OUT

[fubar57]

All signed in in May

 

[at6]

"Spam, spam spam".

 

[Wurger]

The entries of a spambot. All of them were reported to the SFS site and banned on the same day. I've kicked them into the cyberspace without delay. Later it tried to log in to each account twice but was rejected. So no problem IMHO.

 

[fubar57]

Yep...I'm friends with one of them now

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

 

[A4K]

https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE&ved=0ahUKEwipwbO1zpjeAhVIDMAKHYAEDq4Qo7QBCCYwAA&usg=AOvVaw0Qa6QNTV_azHthdwC3KKcM

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM..! (Monty Python's Spam sketch)

 

[Tieleader]

"bloody Viking"Beserker should get in on this!

 

[GrauGeist]

Yep...I'm friends with one of them now

Are they going to get you a killer deal on some Oakly sunglasses?

 

[parsifal]

I know they are bad, but what is it in this site that they can actually do?

 

[fubar57]

I'm just curious if it showed up in X's alerts that I was following him....her....it, or if Wojtek's booting prevented anything from happening. It's trying to wreak havoc on the site and sees a "Following Request" alert go up

 

[parsifal]

I found this wiki article on forum bots which was useful.


Nasty little suckers....


Forum spam - Wikipedia

 

[fubar57]

Bots are goodish...spammer not. They leave all sorts of advertising for not so great stuff and the English they use is brutal. The Bots lead me to places all over the site that I've never been to and get to see stuff that happened before I joined

 

[parsifal]

Just ride the pony

 

[GrauGeist]

Before the forum's server became sophisticated, the spammers (bots, mostly) would flood threads with gibberish, infected links and all sorts of nonsense.

It was actually fun to see the Mods kill off the human spammers, they'd alter the spammer's message with less than complimentary (to them) insinuations of their parentage, personal habits, sexual partner preferences and more - those days are long behind us, of course, but it was great entertainment.

 

[Gnomey]

It's still entertainment just you guys do see so much of it...

 

[Marcel]

Before the forum's server became sophisticated, the spammers (bots, mostly) would flood threads with gibberish, infected links and all sorts of nonsense.

It was actually fun to see the Mods kill off the human spammers, they'd alter the spammer's message with less than complimentary (to them) insinuations of their parentage, personal habits, sexual partner preferences and more - those days are long behind us, of course, but it was great entertainment.

We still do that, only not in public. And we are not trying to communicate with them anymore as there is no point in that. I think the guys back then weren't aware that these are only little pieces of software and not real people.

 

[GrauGeist]

Some of the spammers back then were human, Marcel.
They'd earn a percentage of revenue from traffic so they were fairly aggressive in their tactics.

As scripting/coding became more sophisticated, the human element was edged out.

Still, it was alot of fun to see the Mods shame them!

 

[fubar57]

And we thought we had problems long ago. I was just on wwwspitfiresite.com and went to the forums section Recent Posts and the first 7 pages are nothing but spam

 

[GrauGeist]

I just followed that link you provided and that's a real shame, Geo

Sadly, quite a few forums aren't being moderated as well as they should. But WW2AC has always been on the ball and kept the nonsense out of the mix.