I don't see the point of this recent spamming. They can't post links, and even if they thought they could, the spaces in the URLs ensure that they'd get no backlink juice, meaning there's no SEO benefit (pro or con, as people sometimes pay spammers to spam competitor links in order to get them penalized by search engines for spamming). Even if they're playing the numbers game and banking on one in a thousand people being curious enough to visit the spammed sites, posting in subforums is a great way to expose a ton of spam links to virtually no one. I just don't get it. The whole endeavor seems like a waste of time for everyone involved.
helpo1: Interesting. They keep posting from the same account till I mention them here. Four threads made by 1474, but after I posted this account here, they went to 1478.
Thanks for that. I could have sworn they switched as soon as I listed them, but I brushed it off as coincidence at the time. I guess the spammer/s are watching this thread, then? Or maybe using some kind of script that watches it and changes the spam account when the current spamming account is mentioned?
rtcvb32: Even something as simple as having a 5+ rep in order to post new topics, or a limit of 1 topic a minute and 5 topics an hour. (
I can't think of any person who could/would need more than that, i've never made more than 3 in an hour that i can recall).
Even something like only allowing 5 threads a day in a single forum section would
probably be reasonable. I don't think I've ever seen anyone post that many threads in one day because it's typically considered bad forum etiquette. Then again, they're making new accounts whenever they're mentioned, so they'd probably be able to get around even that at the end of the day.