Get Lost, Spambots! [Rant]

These spambots are getting on my nerves!

"Recover stolen cryptocurrencies with hacking… or with magic." → You expect me to believe that? My ass!
"Voodoo revenge spells. Death spells for your enemies." → Yeah, what's next? By the way: Does it work on spammers?
"Get rich by this perfect method […]" → …and this is why you spam instead of using your own method to get rich.

Yesterday I could not believe my eyes: Two bots were cluttering the forum with their nonsense, trying to beat each other. Who posts more threads in a given amount of time?
The first one offered "Call Girls" while the second wanted to sell "Abortion Pills" (with the well-known marketing name).

Good lord, spammers, do you expect men to mass order women for special services, get them pregnant and order those dangerous substances afterwards?

Sometimes questionable ideas from religion/faith can indeed be comforting:

:evil:I wish that a special hell for spammers exists. :evil:
:evil: A hell, where spammers have to read their own garbage for all eternity again and again.:evil:

Comments

We need a system that if 3 or more users report them as Spam, it will delete them. That way we don't have to depend or wait for mods to remove them.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Xdqwerty
We need a system that if 3 or more users report them as Spam, it will delete them. That way we don't have to depend or wait for mods to remove them.
We definitely do not LOL. My lord that system would be abused to heckery if somebody annoyed a few people at once.

Said this a few times, but just report the spam and add them to your ignore list. Mods will deal with it as soon as they're able to. Adding the spammer to your ignore list in the meantime will remove them from your recent content and avoid you getting any notifs on watched forums.
 
Rant mode off:
A perfect automated blocker is not possible.

Just want to mention this again:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/post-limit-for-new-users.631041/
What for would a legitimate user post ten threads in five minutes? The impact of a single spam account could be limited to three threads. This will surely not hinder a real user if they can post three threads on their first day.

Having the recent content box full of call girls and such might scare away new users if they visit in the wrong minute.
 
  • Like
Reactions: BigOnYa and Scarlet
Adding the spammer to your ignore list in the meantime will remove them from your recent content and avoid you getting any notifs on watched forums.
That's a really nice feature, didn't even know that was a thing. I don't think that I've ever "ignore-ed" someone on any forum so far, to be honest.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Scarlet
Probably the thing that annoys me the most is that when they make spam blogs the posts clutter up the recent content box - even after they're deleted by mods! Of course the actual content is gone, but that echo remains, taunting me.
 
There's always those black magic spell services too. Not only here, but also on places like YouTube. Managed to report those too.
 

Blog entry information

Author
KleinesSinchen
Views
538
Comments
10
Last update

More entries in Personal Blogs

More entries from KleinesSinchen

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    I'm so pumped, NCAA football video game is back after a 10 year hiatus, coming to SeriesS/X, PS5 in July.
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    Wish they would let us play the NCAA football 14 on newer xbox, its one of the only games I love and own on disc still, that is not back compatible, bs.
  • AdenTheThird @ AdenTheThird:
    @BigOnYa My dad recently bought a spare Series X off of me, got game pass, and saw Madden '24 on Game Pass, decided to try it out.

    ...He was a bit taken aback by the 60GB download size. Poor guy's still living in the 90s!
    +1
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @AdenTheThird, Bro's still in the PS2 age.
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Lol charging your dad's classic unless he's the type that doesn't like taking things like that
  • AdenTheThird @ AdenTheThird:
    @K3Nv2 He was looking into consoles for his house anyway (for my younger siblings and himself) and I had a spare XSX and Switch I ended up selling him at pretty steep cuts. I would just give them to him, but I did buy them with the intent to sell them... and college is super expensive.
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    A little yeah...
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @BigOnYa, [insert wut here]
    +1
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    I'm a little hi, but bout to fix that.
    +1
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    Now I'm low, i was upstairs in my wifeys kitchen, now I'm downstairs in my dungeon.(My basement)
    +1
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    do you mind? i snuck in with amiibo and jars, and am trying to do my thing brony style
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    have you ever regretted saying something immediately after saying it?
    +1
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    nah what i was doing was trying to cure my ever-so-apparent crabs
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @SylverReZ,
    my younger brother is forcing me to play with him and my cousins are here *sigh*
    +1
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    @SylverReZ that Hack a hacked 360 vid was neat, never knew it existed.
    +1
  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @BigOnYa, I thought it was interesting.
    +1
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    nvm this video is clickbait
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    I got a dazzel capture card some place in storage
    K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2: I got a dazzel capture card some place in storage