New Years Resolution -- More Spam?

[Max]

Originally Posted by Anoree

Welcome back, Ugo!

Yes, it's a boom here. We've banned about 2.500 spammers or spammer clones this year already. (The spammer clones may not have gotten around to post spam.)

It's a pest right now, but we do our best to keep the forum spam free. We'll get them all eventually.

I'll bet you money it's just 1 person. Notice the little flower on all the profiles. below the name and number of posts. Plus the amount of spammers is quite low, they just have so many algorithms in place to place their messages EVERYWHERE. This person has an algorithm in place to create profiles, and send spam messages.

[WhyYou]

Originally Posted by Max

I'll bet you money it's just 1 person. Notice the little flower on all the profiles. below the name and number of posts. Plus the amount of spammers is quite low, they just have so many algorithms in place to place their messages EVERYWHERE. This person has an algorithm in place to create profiles, and send spam messages.

Max...It is NOT just one person. The little flower you see is the icon for an ICQ number. There are MANY different IP addresses used from MANY different countries around the world. The current number of spammers is low because we Moderators have been working hard to block as many spammers as possible. Stop speculating about who the spammers might be. It will only make you go crazy.

[Anoree]

Originally Posted by Max

I'll bet you money it's just 1 person. Notice the little flower on all the profiles. below the name and number of posts. Plus the amount of spammers is quite low, they just have so many algorithms in place to place their messages EVERYWHERE. This person has an algorithm in place to create profiles, and send spam messages.

Originally Posted by WhyYou

Max...It is NOT just one person. The little flower you see is the icon for an ICQ number. There are MANY different IP addresses used from MANY different countries around the world. The current number of spammers is low because we Moderators have been working hard to block as many spammers as possible. Stop speculating about who the spammers might be. It will only make you go crazy.

There are also a couple of different style groups of spam, as well as certain other characteristics that distinguish the spamming groups. But you can keep your money, Max.

[mart]

Just a shame we can't simply ignore them, i try my best not to click their threads, especially the blantantly obvious ones. Hope nobody ever clicks on any of their links. Happy their never here for long, thanks to fast admin.

[Anoree]

Originally Posted by mart

Just a shame we can't simply ignore them, i try my best not to click their threads, especially the blantantly obvious ones. Hope nobody ever clicks on any of their links. Happy their never here for long, thanks to fast admin.

Some may linger longer than others. We try to delete them as quickly as possible, but some of us have to sleep and/or work, and unfortunately can't do both at once.

[Max]

Maybe we need one of those things that has to read scrambled letters before creating a new thread.

[Anoree]

Originally Posted by Max

Maybe we need one of those things that has to read scrambled letters before creating a new thread.

We have a thing where you need to read scrambled letters to register already, so I doubt that would be an efficient way to block the spammers. And about 10% of the spamming posts are put into existing threads, so that won't catch all spams anyway. The spammers would just quit creating new threads and flood our existing threads all the more.