What is going on with certain users (bots perhaps) spamming the General Discussion Forums with threats that are titled like "

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And the users are those with only recently created accounts. What is going on..?

I suspect it's a bot, but no idea what the motive is for this. For instance, I go to the General Discussion place, and I see 10 of these:

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And 5 minutes later, it all disappeared...

Get him now!

i contribute only useful content to the forums

Yes, I've always wanted to ask about this. I don't get it, is it selling something? Is it spreading propaganda. I can't figure out the purpose at all. 

I'm just going to begin commenting on them. Fight fire with fire. 

Nevermind, it reacted negatively. They're out of control now. 

It's certainly a bot. I have no idea why chess.com doesn't follow my suggestion to have a captcha test for all members. 

lol,that would be hilarious.

Thankfully the threads are always removed by the staff quickly enough.

The phone number marriage, black magic, etc spam is most likely not bot driven and are manual spammers. 

The site auto-closes a number of those but some slip through and are manually caught.

 Mod logic.

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And why does chess.com care about protecting spammers?

That doesn't work.  I learnt from experience.

Well, actually, it was more the fact that search engines grab text more readily but to satisfy you, I'll remove those images too.