Growing number of necro posters are taking advantage of old threads

[Lethn]

I've decided I will show no mercy to these guys because they're clearly spamming, if they have a problem with it they can show themselves as real users and complain.

[1715650820]

1715650820

[1715650820]

1715650820

[BadBear]

I've decided I will show no mercy to these guys because they're clearly spamming, if they have a problem with it they can show themselves as real users and complain.

I've banned several of that type so far. Reviving old threads is fine, there's been a lot of good discussion over the years, and it can be an interesting retrospective sometimes, but some are clearly just spamming. 

[gogxmagog]

sometimes the discussion you are interested only appears in an older thread. not everyone is keen to begin new threads...but if the posts are meaningless...yes ban them. Is it a new wave of n00bs trying to create puppet accounts? would make more sense to post innocuously in existing active threads and not be noticed...these new guys are pretty easy to spot though...I'm even seeing a few with such idiosyncratic style of writing that you can spot them through several different accounts... wasnt the last wave of this BS related tpo the bearwhale incident?

Jeez all these nickle-dime losers are a real threat to my legit sig income...idiots.

[Lethn]

It can be hard to tell sometimes, but some of these posters are being really obvious, they're bumping threads that were finished ages ago, definitely not innocent, the funny thing is sometimes they've restarted them and others have hopped onto the bandwagon without checking.

[Willisius]

It can be hard to tell sometimes, but some of these posters are being really obvious, they're bumping threads that were finished ages ago, definitely not innocent, the funny thing is sometimes they've restarted them and others have hopped onto the bandwagon without checking.

I don't think it matters if a conversation continues after it has temporarily ended many months ago as long as what is being discussed is related to the OP of the old thread. There is zero harm in doing this.

Spam has long been an issue for this forum (and I would expect other forums have similar problems). If you go to the last page of the media forum you will find two threads discussing the amount of spam from 2011.

Helping out with spam

Advertisement Spam

here are the two threads.