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Author Topic: Life Advice's been spammed to hell  (Read 3441 times)

NRDL

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Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« on: September 07, 2017, 06:51:27 am »

Seriously, eight pages full of shit that I really don't wanna risk clicking. I'm not entirely sure how reporting works on this forum, never had to before. What's the fastest way to get rid of all of it?
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2017, 06:53:15 am »

there is a report to moderator button , bottom right of a post.

Problem is, only toady can delete them and the bot keeps posting a new one every few seconds. Dependng on when toady arrives, it may get huge. I am afraid of what will happen to the forum, having to delete so many threads.

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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2017, 07:27:41 am »

Not much, probably. Iirc whatever was causing that particular bit of software hiccup got mostly fixed at some point.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2017, 07:28:13 am »

Unless the great one has a delete all post by user tool such as database editing tools it will take some time. But it will happen that is for sure.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2017, 07:37:11 am »

oh, good to know that server hiccups got mostly fixed. By the time toady gets around it will probably be beyond 30 pages of threads.

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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2017, 07:54:40 am »

Also I've sent a direct email to Toady, hopefully that will get him here a bit faster ;v
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2017, 07:55:34 am »

Holy bat shitman, that's one of the most ridiculous spams I've seen on these forums. Just how many threads did this bot make? Crazy.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2017, 07:56:06 am »

Holy bat shitman, that's one of the most ridiculous spams I've seen on these forums. Just how many threads did this bot make? Crazy.

27 pages, 399 threads.

and counting.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2017, 08:14:40 am »

See, what I have to wonder what the bot is trying to accomplish. Is this another kitchen supply spam, or...?
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2017, 08:29:28 am »

Wow, geeze, he'll probably have to temporarily take the forum offline to fix that.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2017, 08:46:45 am »

Well, if he can automatically delete all posts of an user it'll be easy. Thankfully, only Life Advice seems affected.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2017, 09:00:19 am »

I have never seen one this bad before, on any of the forms I have looked at before, it has almost 32 pages now.
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2017, 09:03:07 am »

I think he might get emails when you report stuff? Also, 635 and counting. I sent one report with *SIREN KLAXON!*
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2017, 09:11:34 am »

Has anyone looked to see what the bot is trying to advertise?
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Re: Life Advice's been spammed to hell
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2017, 09:12:04 am »

See, what I have to wonder what the bot is trying to accomplish. Is this another kitchen supply spam, or...?

It's just listing a bunch of Casino-related terms and what may be websites. I'd say it's probably some sort of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) scheme.
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