Lo people of HEXUS
The spammers are getting a little better- today I have cleared out loads of quite well worded posts, but they're in the wrong context of the thread they're posted as replies in.
The bot software being used, after signing up by human, and trying tp make it past our first line of blocks, is copying replies from other forums and pasting it here, using thread content and title to try to match the two together. Be aware please.
Don't just jump on a rude or offensive reply immediately.... ponder it.... and maybe click the new users name and see what else thay have posted recently. Then report the thread and we will sort.
I have just deleted a load of garbage that was well written but uttery discontected to the theme of the threads and most was very positive, congratulatory and supportive.. but one was down right rude tbh... and it's not a person. It's software taking someone elses offensive statement and using it.
Once they get a foot in the forum door, those users go quiet.. and then a few months, or a year later, they come back and post with URL's tucked away in their posts to try to drive traffic and improve SEO for other people's websites. It's a harsh old world.
Our team here are pretty good as spotting spam- it's a sense we gain over many years. Spider sense tingles.. and then we do a few checks. There are websites devoted to stopping forum spam. We try hard - please help us by not beibng mortally offended by rude comments, becaus once the thread kicks off... the google, baidu and bing spiders crawl all over it and see it as "good and busy" and that helps the little scrote who spammed it to the top.
And we don't like little to help these dreggs of humanity.
Cheers all