DO NOT BUMP SPAM

[p1ngpong]

As many regular visitors of the site know we are forever waging a war against spam bots here. We are generally quick to exterminate them and their threads thanks to quick reporting by our members and vigilance by the moderating team and I would like to thank everyone who takes the time to bring spambots to our attention.

However tonight something happened that genuinely made me both angry and disappointed at the same time and also made me question the common sense of some of our most prolific and well known members.

A porn spambot made a thread on the forum with graphic images and links in its opening post. People proceeded to post in this thread not once or twice, but nine times.

So this thread was bumped to the top of the latest discussion tab and given more views nine times with idiotic posts ranging from the usual "reported" to people just thinking they are funny.

Let me make it clear:

DO NOT BUMP OBVIOUS SPAM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS PORNOGRAPHIC!

Just report it!

Thanks.

I am going to take a few hours out to calm down before I take any action if any on the people who bumped that last thread, my immediate reaction being to suspend you all for your stupidity.

 

[Costello]

I assumed that if it's in the top threads, someone's going to see it sooner. Sorry for upsetting you, almighty p1ng.

that almost made sense, but what if instead of replying to the thread, you reported it?
then not only we would be aware of it quickly, but you would also leave the thread be, not bump it for everyone else to see.

Use your mildly oversized brain for once

 

[Issac]

80's asses are the best!!!

looked more like 70's to me though... (but what do I know about that stuff? )

By the way: I just find it common sense to NOT post in spam threads, but reporting it the second I see it. (Unless it's TaeWong's threads )

 

[raulpica]

It wasn't even awesome porn to begin with You guys have no taste at all!

 

[Foxi4]

that almost made sense, but what if instead of replying to the thread, you reported it?
then not only we would be aware of it quickly, but you would also leave the thread be, not bump it for everyone else to see.

Use your mildly oversized brain for once

I did both...

I'll be good next time!

 

[gifi4]

I will not have this!
I missed it!
You people oughta be more considerate and PM me or something with a link to the thread

Anyway, OT: I report threads like that whenever I see them, the only time I skip on it is if I'm in a rush.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I've seen people do this a lot as well. I've done it once, just once. It wasn't porn though.
I don't know why people bother spamming porn. They're not even bots. Do they just hate the site or something?

 

[Deleted-236924]

Do they just hate the site or something?

It's because they think they are le master trole 2013

 

[Arras]

I usually report those things unless they have been there for about ten minutes or more. I figure by that time the mods will have gotten a dozen reports already, no need for another one.

 

[EZ-Megaman]

I remember a forum I used to go on had moderators approve of a member's first post as a way of fighting against spam bots.
I'm not sure if that would feasible with a forum as big as this one since it would cause more work for the moderating team, but it could be an idea to consider.

 

[Rydian]

It wouldn't stop them from posting in the first place*, so mods would still need to do cleanup work.

* - Most forums, including this one, add rel="nofollow" to user-posted links, which tells search engines to ignore them so that sites that spam won't get rated as having a lot of links to them... but these places spam anyways in the hopes that users will click them, or just because they spam everything they can just in case.

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

Funny enough, "Bump Spam" was the title of one of the subjects.

This is all that the stupid people (and people with selective reading and/or dyslexia) will get from this thread:

"DO NOT BUMP SPAM" - "DO NOT" = "BUMP SPAM"

 

[air2004]

It wasn't even awesome porn to begin with You guys have no taste at all!

I will be the judge of that lol (where is the thread :-)

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

I remember a forum I used to go on had moderators approve of a member's first post as a way of fighting against spam bots.
I'm not sure if that would feasible with a forum as big as this one since it would cause more work for the moderating team, but it could be an idea to consider.

The only problem is that there are a lot of "one-time use" accounts being made. If there is/was a way to monitor traffic to the site based on geographic locations without fail, then someone could just make a little code that blocks that location(s).

 

[air2004]

The only problem is that there are a lot of "one-time use" accounts being made. If there is/was a way to monitor traffic to the site based on geographic locations without fail, then someone could just make a little code that blocks that location(s).

But then what do you about the legit users , make them jump through hoops to join?

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

But then what do you about the legit users , make them jump through hoops to join?

DANCE MONKEYS!!!!! DANCE!!!!!

 

[nukeboy95]

lets wait 1-5 years and then bump this thread

 

[Depravo]

Bumping to remind people of this thread.

 

[Sicklyboy]

Bumping to remind people of this thread.

You clever spammer, you.

 

[DiabloStorm]

Bumping to remind people of this thread.

Noted. I usually just report but I didn't think it was a big deal to respond since it gets deleted anyway and you guys are usually on top of things pretty fast. (Also, maybe I'm being optimistic but I wouldn't think that anybody would actually be dumb enough to click through to the spammer's links they usually post...) Anyway, I get it. I understand the bumping thing and that it will only perpetuate the spam bullshit further so I'll keep this in mind next time.

 

[p1ngpong]

Ahem.

There were eight incidents of spam being bumped again today, it made me very sad.