TomJH Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 사다리사이트 →√← WAＷＡ２9 사다리사이트 →√← WAＷＡ２9 ONE OF US! ONE OF US! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Wow, Tom! I had heard that peninsula was crowded, but I had NO idea it was THAT bad!!! (...so, it kind'a like that one Star Trek episode where the crew of the Enterprise land on that planet that's overcrowded to the max, huh?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 The thread conjoiner strikes again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 It is my understanding that there is a variety of spammers who want a great quantity of posts on otherwise legitimate sites so that search-bots such as Google and Bing will add the names mentioned in the subject of the post to their findings and record a high number of hits for them. It is in this way that the posts are not truly aimed at members of a forum. Their purpose is to make search-bots 'believe' the names in the subject line are widely popular and so will present them on the first page when some person does a search for that type of thing. Yes, spambots are designed to flood multiple forums with multiple duplicate postings to increase the subjects' presence on the various search engines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 It is my understanding that there is a variety of spammers who want a great quantity of posts on otherwise legitimate sites so that search-bots such as Google and Bing will add the names mentioned in the subject of the post to their findings and record a high number of hits for them. It is in this way that the posts are not truly aimed at members of a forum. Their purpose is to make search-bots 'believe' the names in the subject line are widely popular and so will present them on the first page when some person does a search for that type of thing. I still don't understand the ultimate satisfaction of doing this sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I still don't understand the ultimate satisfaction of doing this sort of thing. always comes down to $$$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMadness Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I would be surprised if it's a spambot doing the spam postings, there is a time delay like it is an actual person doing it for each shady website. It is killing off the traffic here I am afraid, there are only about 20 people who post more than 5 messages now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EugeniaH Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Here comes the spam again... Maybe TCM can pay some hourly or intern whose only job is to sit at a computer and delete the spam as soon as it shows up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 always comes down to $$$$ Somebody pays them for doing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Here comes the spam again... Maybe TCM can pay some hourly or intern whose only job is to sit at a computer and delete the spam as soon as it shows up? Shouldn't be hard to find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Shouldn't be hard to find. But he might do spam himself, just so there will something to delete, to keep his job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 I would be surprised if it's a spambot doing the spam postings, there is a time delay like it is an actual person doing it for each shady website. Early spambots were defeated when forum software began requiring a delay between posts. It was generally considered that a short delay would not interfere with users because of the time required for human to select text box and type message. Spambots which attempted to post in microsecond intervals found their posts blocked by these required delays. Modern spambots have user-selectable intervals and some have random modes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Somebody pays them for doing this? It is the most unsavory part of: "site promotion" industry. Companies pay for others to promote their site and increase traffic. This is to raise public awareness of their their brand or message. This is generally done by having workers insert prepared messages as appropriate into comments or discussions on a wide variety of sites. These workers are often in China or Korea as those are areas of greatest competency at lowest cost. There are many who claim such activity is legitimate as it is merely a form of advertising. Many people feel it is an industry based on flawed ethics. The use of spambots is the lowest form of this activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMadness Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Early spambots were defeated when forum software began requiring a delay between posts. It was generally considered that a short delay would not interfere with users because of the time required for human to select text box and type message. Spambots which attempted to post in microsecond intervals found their posts blocked by these required delays. Modern spambots have user-selectable intervals and some have random modes. I have never been timed out posting here though, so I don't think this software has that feature. But you make sense it has to be bots as no human would be this dumb to waste all that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 I have never been timed out posting here though, so I don't think this software has that feature. But you make sense it has to be bots as no human would be this dumb to waste all that time. I believe that most forum software imposes delay of approx. ten seconds. This is not generally noticeable to humans but was deadly to early spambots. This delay was considered great success because it was invisible to users but reduced spam considerably. Modern spamming software often allows user to insert a list of forums to spam simultaneously. The posting interval must be set greater than the longest delay imposed by any of those sites. Even one site which requires a delay of a minute raises the bar for all sites being spammed at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I have never been timed out posting here though, so I don't think this software has that feature. But you make sense it has to be bots as no human would be this dumb to waste all that time. Funny, but "wasting all that time" talkin' old movies on this here TCM website IS the very reason my wife often states I'M "dumb"!!! (...of course I think what REALLY upsets her most is hearing me chuckling to myself and actually laughing out loud as I type all these lame jokes of mine into these threads!) LOL <---SEE?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 (...of course I think what REALLY upsets her most is hearing me chuckling to myself and actually laughing out loud as I type all these lame jokes of mine into these threads!) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Funny, but "wasting all that time" talkin' old movies on this here TCM website IS the very reason my wife often states I'M "dumb"!!! (...of course I think what REALLY upsets her most is hearing me chuckling to myself and actually laughing out loud as I type all these lame jokes of mine into these threads!) LOL <---SEE?! I'm the one who first mentioned lame jokes today, and my lame jokes are lamer than yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I would be surprised if it's a spambot doing the spam postings, there is a time delay like it is an actual person doing it for each shady website. It is killing off the traffic here I am afraid, there are only about 20 people who post more than 5 messages now. Yes, most definitely it's killing activity on the boards. Perhaps, the spammers intent? It's worse than its ever been..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I'm the one who first mentioned lame jokes today, and my lame jokes are lamer than yours. I'd say it's a close race.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I'd say it's a close race.............. That was a pretty lame comment. (You're right in my wheelhouse. "Lame" is one of my favorite words.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Well, fits right in then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 "Can't Buy A Ticket To That Concert You Want To See? Blame Bots" http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/464708137/cant-buy-a-ticket-to-that-concert-you-want-to-see-blame-bots?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews -it always comes back to $$$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 After seeing this latest round of spam, I may never shop at Wawa again (a chain of convenience stores in PA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 After seeing this latest round of spam, I may never shop at Wawa again (a chain of convenience stores in PA) WAWA?????????? Who came up with that one???? LMREO! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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