Sure is a lot of SPAM, lately

**Demnchi** · 04-23-2013, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by a player

Thanks Demnchi. I often forget about those seldom-used gadgets. You can practically spot a lot of that SPAM from space, because it's either written in Cyrillic and not in a Greek or Russian sub-forum or it mentions brand-name clothing or V!@gr@ or whatever.

But it's not very easy to flag them, because, while it takes a half-dozen clicks or more, and you have to type the word 'SPAM' or something in a text box before you can Report, it takes 20 seconds to do all this, then you have to wait another 40 seconds before you can report the next one.

I'd rather just post once and tell you guys where to look. Did they forget to enable some of the blockers?

I don't know, the volume is quite low compared to when Kyle first put on the automated spam plugin, so a combination of the new site + bots just getting better could be the cause.

Also, I don't know any other languages, it all looks cryptic to me, i won't be able to tell. The best I can do is plug it into google translate if I think its spam. Also, you only need to report it once per user, I can ban them and erase all their posts fairly quickly. The time anyone takes to report these is greatly appreciated!

Originally Posted by ahmet476

Did anyone get spam PMs? I got one of those "hey I have this money there, can you manage it for me" kinda ones.

If you get PM's from people who don't have posts (and its spam), please feel free to PM me with the account name so we can get them banned. I urge everyone not to follow links or give out personal information to anyone you don't know, especially if you can tell its a spam bot.