Forum Spammers
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Feb 15, 2017
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#5
there's also this guy called gerald-sull who just fills the forums with random trash...
Get him now!
i contribute only useful content to the forums
Feb 15, 2017
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#8
Bots spam forums to affect search results in Google. If Google "sees" that a certain website (and its relevant tags/contact info) is linked or mentioned by other websites the result gets pushed higher.
The spammers don't necessarily care about any of us seeing their message.
The spammers don't necessarily care about any of us seeing their message.
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.
Feb 16, 2017
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#13
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.
Thankfully the threads are always removed by the staff quickly enough.
Feb 16, 2017
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#16
Cherub_Enjel wrote:
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.
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.
Feb 16, 2017
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#19
VladimirHerceg91 wrote:
Fight fire with fire.
That doesn't work. I learnt from experience.
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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