Hey mods - spam????


Hey mods - spam????

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Saw this on another forum and it makes sense.

I am guilty of this here but had no idea. Prob a good idea to spread the word

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Like every forum, this one gets occasional spam, it can't be helped, and we're usually pretty quick to get rid of it.

However, some people, who apparently have been living under a rock, have been replying to spam posts.

Do Not. You Idiots.

The spammers monitor spam threads to see which forums get responses, any response simply encourages them to spam us more, they don't differentiate between good and bad responses, they just count them.

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Glenn - A-league Mad wrote:
Saw this on another forum and it makes sense.

I am guilty of this here but had no idea. Prob a good idea to spread the word

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Like every forum, this one gets occasional spam, it can't be helped, and we're usually pretty quick to get rid of it.

However, some people, who apparently have been living under a rock, have been replying to spam posts.

Do Not. You Idiots.

The spammers monitor spam threads to see which forums get responses, any response simply encourages them to spam us more, they don't differentiate between good and bad responses, they just count them.


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I'm so glad that some British kitchen fitters are offering their services to people in a different fucking hemisphere.

For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenals moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own. - Hornby

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Buggalugs - you should have listened... wrote:
Glenn - A-league Mad wrote:
Saw this on another forum and it makes sense.

I am guilty of this here but had no idea. Prob a good idea to spread the word

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Like every forum, this one gets occasional spam, it can't be helped, and we're usually pretty quick to get rid of it.

However, some people, who apparently have been living under a rock, have been replying to spam posts.

Do Not. You Idiots.

The spammers monitor spam threads to see which forums get responses, any response simply encourages them to spam us more, they don't differentiate between good and bad responses, they just count them.


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I'm actually now a big fan of what you wrote glenn.

For the regulars, who have been known the reply to spam threads (however witty/hilarious the post was) that are reading this - please don't do it in the future. Leave spam threads untouched - regardless of how enticing they are to reply to.

I'll attempt to PM any users responding to spam threads that I get the chance to see do it, and hopefully we can install this mindset into everyone and the spambots get less keen on harrassing our forum.

Cheers Glenn, and others for cooperating in future.
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Thanks for the heads up, Glenn and co!
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Buggalugs - you should have listened... wrote:
Glenn - A-league Mad wrote:
Saw this on another forum and it makes sense.

I am guilty of this here but had no idea. Prob a good idea to spread the word

Quote:
Like every forum, this one gets occasional spam, it can't be helped, and we're usually pretty quick to get rid of it.

However, some people, who apparently have been living under a rock, have been replying to spam posts.

Do Not. You Idiots.

The spammers monitor spam threads to see which forums get responses, any response simply encourages them to spam us more, they don't differentiate between good and bad responses, they just count them.


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Exactly. Amazing to see how many are still taking the bait in the politics and climate change thread.



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