What is with the freakin' spam?

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:47 am

Seriously, I don't get it. You don't see this kinda spam anywhere else. Why do all these spammers target you guys, of all people, and here, of all places. We're just a small community of Linux geeks. I don't know, maybe Pat pissed off one too many Apple wieners.

Post by **Patrick** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:51 am

Have seen some other forums? They get spam as well.

jsusanka · Post by **jsusanka** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:37 am

Patrick wrote:Have seen some other forums? They get spam as well.

agreed I have seen forums that get a lot more - you guys do a great job of stopping it.

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:57 am

jsusanka wrote:
Patrick wrote:Have seen some other forums? They get spam as well.

agreed I have seen forums that get a lot more - you guys do a great job of stopping it.

Yeah, they do, but it still seems like there are more people attacking this place than anywhere else. I've seen atleast 50 different users post spam on this board. This thread wasn't intended to be a complaint, but more or less just a genuine question.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:16 pm

It's prolly just bots. I think maybe 3 people actually read my blog, and I get a metric assload of spam on it every day.

Post by **dann** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:51 pm

Snarkout wrote:It's prolly just bots. I think maybe 3 people actually read my blog, and I get a metric assload of spam on it every day.

Uh, Allan said he stopped reading so that makes only 2

Anyway, it is a pain, the Spam, and Pat moreso than me has been doing a phenomenal job keeping the board cleaned up. The only other way around this is to enforce a policy that all new members have to be authorized by an admin before their membership is approved. This limits how soon one can post after signing up. Something we do not want to do.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:54 pm

DAMN YOU ALLAN!!!!!!!