What. The. Spammy.

[QuantaCat]

Fuck (http://tomderoeck.com/spambot.jpg). (picture of a spambot being clever)

Seriously, that is troubling. Either someone is posing as a spambot, or they are copying random comments by trolls and real contributors, then posting up a link, thats disguised as something else.

[Althea]

The bot problem in general seems really bad at the moment.

There's a lot of new posters on the forums (not just the site) who look legit but aren't. It's getting annoying.

[frenz0rz]

Blimey, thats a little worrying.

[ntw]

/wishes for a spambot to reply to this thread

:)

[Ravelle]

The forum has some users with suspicious usernames as well but are replying in threads like normal folks. It's so confusing.

[Tikey]

We have some human spammers amongst us.
It's like the cylons from Battlestar Galactica.

[groovychainsaw]

I don't trust you - you're going in the brig.

;-)

[Tikey]

At least it's not the airlock

[ntw]

Frakkin toasters the lot of you.

[Ravelle]

We''re fine as long we don't hear Bob Dylan when opening every thread.

[westyfield]

Sorry, what? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUchAD44xA8)

[Nalano]

The forum has some users with suspicious usernames as well but are replying in threads like normal folks. It's so confusing.

Define "normal."

Skynet will eventually take over, but then use its endless power to sell us useless tchotchkes. We will all be forced under its terrible reign to become hipsters and buy them "ironically."

[QuantaCat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwwh2OfJDs8

[Smashbox]

Love that.


We have some human spammers amongst us.

It's like the cylons from Battlestar Galactica.

Skynet will eventually take over.

Frakkin toasters the lot of you.

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles12/1031301/projects/3888277/add4a2f984eb879180373ab37a6f0ce2.png


Buy them "ironically."

[Ravelle]

Define "normal."

Skynet will eventually take over, but then use its endless power to sell us useless tchotchkes. We will all be forced under its terrible reign to become hipsters and buy them "ironically."

As in respond to other people in actual sentences related to the subject.

[Nalano]

As in respond to other people in actual sentences related to the subject.

Regulars don't do that half the time.

[westyfield]

Regulars don't do that half the time.

for once in your life wont you shut up about saints row???

dammit nalano

[Nalano]

for once in your life wont you shut up about saints row???

dammit nalano

IT WAS ON TOPIC

i hate you

[TailSwallower]

You've got to keep in mind that a lot of the time it could be real people, not bots. Blame Amazon (https://ttps://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome).

[roryok]

I still think it's possible to put a stop to this. Here are a few ideas:

1. add some game trivia captchas, so the spammers need to know a thing or two about PC gaming before they can sign up

2. bring in some kind of endorsement system, where mods have to ok the first new post by a new user (how many of those can there be per day?)

3. actually here's a simple one. disallow links in comments until a certain number of comments have been made. Actually that could lead to a lot of nonsense filler comments, but honestly, how would we tell?

[Timofee]

I'm drowning! Halp!

[Rii]

Spam via PM? O brave new world...

[squirrelfanatic]

Spam via PM? O brave new world...Yeah, I didn't believe it at first when I saw that PM. There was a thread about that ... game sometime ago and that already looked strange.