The Spam Tsunami

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buksida
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Re: The Spam Tsunami

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We really cant work out what they're trying to achieve by posting a load of tripe, it wont work unless they get a link in - which they cant. The link helps their search engine ratings, the more back-links you have the higher the site will rank, especially if the site linking to it has a higher Page Rank than the target site.

Posting without the link is utterly futile so why do they even bother? :cuss:
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Re: The Spam Tsunami

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We have purged hundreds of suspected spam bot accounts in order to control the recent flood of forum spam.

There may have been the odd genuine one that has been caught up in the purge so please accept our apologies and re-register if you can no longer log in.
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Re: The Spam Tsunami

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buksida wrote:Posting without the link is utterly futile so why do they even bother? :cuss:
Are we just seeing cases of digital graffiti-ism (if their is such a word)?
Complexity is so simply overrated
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