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WillowLuman

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Invasion of Advertisers
« on: January 17, 2013, 04:04:24 pm »
It really saddens me to see the growing number of ad accounts popping up. I don't know whether they're done manually or by bots targeting pages with high traffic, but they fill me with dismay. For one, how could they seriously think anyone on this board would click their blatantly off-topic links? Not fooling anyone, and not doing much to divert traffic to their products.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2013, 04:17:28 pm »
They don't think of course! Mindless swarms of innumerable bots and cybot hybrids. Nasty critters.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2013, 04:53:46 pm »
It's a shame you can't harvest their remains for stuff to smelt ! Really nasty critters.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2013, 07:31:20 pm »
Seriously, though, just look in the new users page for product/business sounding names. We must investigate to find these creatures of the night before they suck our master craftsmen dry!

EDIT: adbots / salespeople seem to all have homepages. Mouse over to see if it leads to a business' site. Don't click, it just gives them hits.
« Last Edit: January 17, 2013, 07:33:24 pm by HugoLuman »
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2013, 10:25:35 pm »
Spammers have been a problem for a while. It seems that they're likely manual spammers using humans to get around the forum captchas. This kind of "attack" is hard to crackdown registration-side since you have to start impeding ease of use for genuine community members. 

There's been quite a few topics on this already and there's even a few quotes (albeit old) from Toady One.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=93877.msg2644467#msg2644467

504 errors are usually caused by Toady having to delete spamposts which a whole bunch of people have replied to. If you see a spam post just report it and move on, try to restrain from clicking links as it just generates them hits.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2013, 10:57:17 pm »
Can't see why people would waste their time and energy to advertise like that on this forum. They must be desperate or looking for forums without seeing what they are. Perhaps we should get the word out to opportunistic web businesses that their efforts are wasted on us.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2013, 12:42:39 am »
Well, I guess that makes sense for people working as advertisers.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2013, 04:20:27 am »
We could hire someone to spread the word that every advertiser spamming here would have his website crash and burn... Even the slightest downtime would cause losses that would dissuade them from spamming here.
it would need one or two examples but that may work. I'm not sure it would be completely legal though...
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2013, 01:35:52 pm »
Yeah.. um, that's usually referred to as extortion.  LOL  And planning for something as such is referred to as conspiracy.

So, officially, I must state my disagreement, and attempt to dissuade anyone from doing so.  Just so I'm covered legally, y'know.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2013, 01:56:18 pm »
Quote from: HugoLuman on January 17, 2013, 04:04:24 pm
It really saddens me to see the growing number of ad accounts popping up. I don't know whether they're done manually or by bots targeting pages with high traffic, but they fill me with dismay. For one, how could they seriously think anyone on this board would click their blatantly off-topic links? Not fooling anyone, and not doing much to divert traffic to their products.

I should flag this as spam.

Really.

We know.

Advertisers have been here for awhile. Nothing new here.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2013, 02:23:40 am »
Mark advertisers as spam.

It really is depressing to think about the amount of money wasted to get people to put ads on sites where they serve no purpose. But, such is the internet. Hopefully we won't see anything like "the same BS post appended to the first 5 threads in the list" again anytime soon.
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2013, 03:19:18 am »
Quote from: Mr S on January 18, 2013, 01:35:52 pm
Yeah.. um, that's usually referred to as extortion.  LOL  And planning for something as such is referred to as conspiracy.

So, officially, I must state my disagreement, and attempt to dissuade anyone from doing so.  Just so I'm covered legally, y'know.

I was kidding ;)
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2013, 02:16:44 pm »
Suki suki 10 dallah! Kliki kliki 10 dallah suki suki! Me love you too much!

Kliki kliki! Me so honei!

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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2013, 02:37:55 pm »
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I'm sorry, your post is incomprehensible XD
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Re: Invasion of Advertisers
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2013, 03:03:40 pm »
Quote from: Hiiri on January 19, 2013, 02:16:44 pm
Suki suki 10 dallah! Kliki kliki 10 dallah suki suki! Me love you too much!

Kliki kliki! Me so honei!

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It would have been better if you had disguised the link as a spoiler.
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