Posted by Erika on 2/15/2007, 1:13 pm, in reply to "Re: probably just spambots" Cjay, I didn't say anything before because it's easier to just ignore junk than to talk about it. But then I saw the spam posts upset you, and figured they probably bug the heck out of other people, too, and I think if we know that they're probably spambots than we will be a lot happier knowing that than worrying about trolls. I understand Deb's very busy and if she has the time to spot and remove spam posts, great, but if she doesn't, that's okay, too, because I think we can just ignore them instead of letting it take up any more of our time.
I agree with Lorna's suggestion to ignore the stuff that looks like junk: weird unfamiliar names, generic or suspicious subject titles... and if you do click the post and there's nothing in them except links, don't click on the links.
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: I think the best thing to with posts such as
: these, which you know are going to be
: offensive, is just to totally ignore them,
: don't click on to investigate...when you do
: that it means they have achieved their
: original objective which is to distress,
: upset and annoy, legitimate users of MB's
: such as this one!
:
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: --Previous Message--
: --Previous Message--
: This morning there was a troll named Zoltar
: or
: something like that with links to Italy it
: looked like.
: Why is he gone but the links to porn still
: on here? They have been on here for almost 3
: months now!!!!!
:
: I think "Adult Web Cams" or
: whatever, LOL, was a spambot, not an actual
: person. Just a program that randomly spams
: message boards. I think it was still on the
: board because it was harder to notice,
: sitting in the middle of a legitimate
: thread. Hiding. LOL
:
: Too embarrassed to be its own thread. LOL
: A shy spambot! Aw...
:
: Anyway it looks like the offending posts
: have been removed.
:
: ** If YOU knew it was there why didn't YOU
: say something before?
: They weren't hard to miss either. The other
: post had very very offensive pictures.
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