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Title: [Awfully compelling idea. Who came up with this?. I shall invest.] STOP IT, MF! Post by: AGD on October 29, 2017, 06:16:46 PM All accounts will be closed anyway. You can stop your experiment now!
Title: Re: [Awfully compelling idea. Who came up with this?. I shall invest.] STOP IT, MF! Post by: bit-freedom on October 29, 2017, 06:42:23 PM Yes right, all the spam posts are so annoying. I have been seeing many of these posts everywhere. And these bots are bumping the old threads.
Title: Re: [Awfully compelling idea. Who came up with this?. I shall invest.] STOP IT, MF! Post by: Iranus on October 29, 2017, 07:00:44 PM I keep trying to report these posts, but it looks like a futile battle. Considering there's a captcha when you register and when you log in, it seems difficult for there to be a bot doing all of these, even though they're very bot-like posts.
They're all newbie accounts and they only seem to post 1 spam post, so I don't see how they could be getting past the forum's system. IIRC the forum makes you pay a fee to create new accounts if you create several from the same IP address, so they would have to be using a VPN with many different locations or possibly hacking a lot of old unused newbie accounts. If a human is doing it, I doubt there's any useful way to stop them at all except for banning the accounts one by one, which would be pretty ineffective. |