Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Circulating vultures, the scent of death

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Just saw a "bot" post something, then go back, change the content and header.

Initially it said "cram of the day" for the content...

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

and now they use accounts older than 10 days.... someone is reading the threads

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Normally, conspiracies like "it's an inside job" or the like go ignored by me... but it's rather uncanny that these spammers are doing tactics that are posted or advertised here in this thread.

If any other changes occur, I kindly request that the admins just don't tell us. Perhaps that will assist a bit and make their progress that much harder.

Just a thought.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Still waiting on the new spam moderators :) the application date has long ended and almost all of us here are still sitting ducks.

Edit: quaty maybe gone by joker2 still spammed 10 times

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

if they start using accounts older than 10 days we wont be able to do a thing as spam moderators :eek:



THATS WHERE CONSPIRACIES COME IN TO PLAY

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

no that's where spam moderators should be given more power secretly by either the admin or the moderators.

This is where spam moderators should have an extra subforum where they communicate directly with the higher ups.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Even if there are few readers in this forum stupid enough to follow the spam links they are targeting it. This may be because most search engines now detect and ignore "link farms" so they need their links mixed in with real content in order to get a better place in search results.

The forum should be altered to add the rel="nofollow" to all links posted in messages. At least until the user has reached a certain number of posts without having been reported.

That way these spam messages won't contribute to the spammers google rank in any way.

Wikipedia explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

we are spammed again:
Username: lpsifee
http://talk.maemo.org/member.php?u=57814
"Watch, Manchester City vs Newcastle United, Free, Live Stream, En Vivo, English Premier League Football, live Online HD FREE TV"
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...35#post1125935

Ban the poster and send an email to his provider!

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

More spam by these users:

http://talk.maemo.org/member.php?u=57983 (jelnagrets)
http://talk.maemo.org/member.php?u=57982 (goels)

By the way, the offending domain is hosted by bluehost, so do not forget to report the abuse to tos@bluehost.com:

https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/117