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Low post count + suspiciously banal comment + brief succession of posts in different threads: finger on the spam bot annihilation trigger. If I notice a comment featuring a spam URL: permanent ban + all comments from the spam bot are rounded up, merged and subsequently 'emptied' (in Bimmerpost sections where I got moderator powers). For hard-delete: merging the 'empty shell' (after merger) with a dedicated dummy post.
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05-01-2024, 06:18 AM | #69 | |
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There is another technique that they use to hide SEO links to avoid reply/quote detection, but I will not share it publicly to prevent it from being used any more than it is. FWIW, I'm pretty sure that I had posted a "Turing test" in Nicky77's profile, and may even have reported a suspected spam message.....
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The spam technique I pointed out is more subtle: impossible to discern - 'physically', the post looks normal. But when you edit or quote the post, a 'nested' spam URL is revealed. The only visible anomaly is context-based: bot-like rambling or some banal compliment (out of context). Low-post count is an additional parameter (although I noticed in the recent past that some old accounts seem to have been 'hi-jacked': suddenly posts feature spam URLs). Also a red flag: a comment featuring text already at the very top line of a 'comment box' (i.e. 'glued' to the top, right under the grey area featuring the date/time info), instead of featuring lower in the 'comment box', almost at the same level of a forum member name). Those posts are deleted, no matter the contents. If you spot such posts: please report with the warning triangle.
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This spam is really smelling already: https://f20.1addicts.com/forums/show...6#post31135076 (there is a spam link attached to the quoted one to look as an extension). A spam thread reported earlier today in the same forum/section is gone but this one remains reported for a few days. Another pet spammer or is the voting not so effective against just reporting?
What does a "potential" spammer mean, after all? A potential SEO spammer is this one: https://f20.1addicts.com/forums/show...62&postcount=1 (most recognizable/insolent, nesting another spam thread but no spam link yet). Should it be reported already for non-welcome consensus ("Come again, next time correctly!" ![]() ![]() |
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