These spam bots are getting silly...

[Gwazi Magnum]

Everyday I'm noticing spam topics on General Chat and having to report it.
Is there anything that can be done to try to reduce it? Or is there something specific about Iwaku that brings them here? Cause I haven't really seen this with any other forum site.​

 

[York]

Everyday I'm noticing spam topics on General Chat and having to report it.
Is there anything that can be done to try to reduce it? Or is there something specific about Iwaku that brings them here? Cause I haven't really seen this with any other forum site.​

Any place with high activity is probably a target for spam bots >.< I guess this forum is a bit of a hive for activity so when someone looks for a place to target, they often stumble into this place I guess (and perhaps the bots are finding a way past the spam filters >.<)

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

Any place with high activity is probably a target for spam bots >.< I guess this forum is a bit of a hive for activity so when someone looks for a place to target, they often stumble into this place I guess (and perhaps the bots are finding a way past the spam filters >.<)

Probably, it's kind of a shame when activity = spam.

 

[Saito Hajime]

Didn't RPG use to get a heap of spam at one point? Lots of British kitchen sales, iirc.

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

Didn't RPG use to get a heap of spam at one point? Lots of British kitchen sales, iirc.

I think so briefly, but it wasn't this consistent.

 

[Brovo]

Indeed. One of them keeps trying to start a cult...

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

o.O

You're older than me Brovo, you should know the difference between spam bots and active members.
Even if the active member is someone who don't personally like.

 

[Holmishire]

I see no greater regularity of Spam bots than any other forum I've frequented in the past. That the threads remain "visible" after deletion may give the opposite impression, however.

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

I see no greater regularity of Spam bots than any other forum I've frequented in the past. That the threads remain "visible" after deletion may give the opposite impression, however.

That's true.
It might just be the fact I'm seeing them stick around that gives that impression.

 

[ASTA]

Indeed. One of them keeps trying to start a cult...

Exposed.

 

[Holmishire]

I don't think we've made bots as advanced as @Gwazi Magnum yet.

This must be part of the new movement bio-engineered spam agents!

 

[Brovo]

You're older than me Brovo, you should know the difference between spam bots and active members.
Even if the active member is someone who don't personally like.

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

Logical reasoning, you're doing it wrong.

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

*Goes to find a meme along the lines of "How could *I* be so foolish"?*

*Tries multiple search variants*

*Every single meme is calling the other person foolish, dumb etc*

Wow... The Internet is a very hostile place. :/

 

[Holmishire]

Logical reasoning, you're doing it wrong.

It may have to do with three of those four threads being made in the span of ten minutes.

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

It may have to do with three of those four threads being made in the span of ten minutes.

I don't really see the issue there.
I send threads out in small groups rather than consistently dropping single ones.

I still probably end up with below average to average amount of threads created by active members anyways.

 

[Hecatoncheires]

 

[Hellis]

"Gonna need a sensu bean for that one."

 

[Razilin]

Everyday I'm noticing spam topics on General Chat and having to report it.
Is there anything that can be done to try to reduce it? Or is there something specific about Iwaku that brings them here? Cause I haven't really seen this with any other forum site.​

they come because they heard about your shitposting

so they decided to get on the bandwagon

 

[Gwazi Magnum]

they come because they heard about your shitposting

so they decided to get on the bandwagon

So these are actually new recruits?

GLORIOUS!!!