Fuck. (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.
Fuck. (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.
- Tom De Roeck.
monochrom & verse publications
"Quantacat's name is still recognised even if he watches on with detached eyes like Peter Molyneux over a cube in 3D space, staring at it with tears in his eyes, softly whispering... Someday they'll get it."
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.
Blimey, thats a little worrying.
I occasionally write things on this website. You can read these things by clicking this thing:
www.teamsao.com
/wishes for a spambot to reply to this thread
:)
When asked, he merely responded with a wry bleat followed by a swift kick to the testicles.- Rakysh
The forum has some users with suspicious usernames as well but are replying in threads like normal folks. It's so confusing.
Steam | Origin: xRavelle | Skype: TheRavelle | PSN: Voltburn | Watch me struggle through my backlog
We have some human spammers amongst us.
It's like the cylons from Battlestar Galactica.
I don't trust you - you're going in the brig.
;-)
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At least it's not the airlock
Frakkin toasters the lot of you.
When asked, he merely responded with a wry bleat followed by a swift kick to the testicles.- Rakysh
We''re fine as long we don't hear Bob Dylan when opening every thread.
Steam | Origin: xRavelle | Skype: TheRavelle | PSN: Voltburn | Watch me struggle through my backlog
Define "normal."Originally Posted by Ravelle
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."
- Tom De Roeck.
monochrom & verse publications
"Quantacat's name is still recognised even if he watches on with detached eyes like Peter Molyneux over a cube in 3D space, staring at it with tears in his eyes, softly whispering... Someday they'll get it."
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.
Buy them "ironically."
As in respond to other people in actual sentences related to the subject.
Steam | Origin: xRavelle | Skype: TheRavelle | PSN: Voltburn | Watch me struggle through my backlog
for once in your life wont you shut up about saints row???
dammit nalano
You've got to keep in mind that a lot of the time it could be real people, not bots. Blame Amazon.
weekendwarrio.rs - We've got more games than time...
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?
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