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Subject: The only thing more annoying than spammers...

Left here a long time ago.

...are spammers trying to blend in. Check it:

if your girlfriend betrayed you...............what will you do then ?

It's a spammer trying to look and act like a Floodian so they can post their stupid advertising links. I've seen quite a few threads like this already. If it were a one-time thing, I'd just PM a ninja, but this is a trend. An annoying trend of fake Floodians.

My response:
Posted by: DavidJCobb
Posted by: cuppday
Posted by: peestil
Boot her from game.
agree
I see what you're doing there.

You're both spammers like the OP, trying to make your posts seem relevant while making sure to stuff links to the same shopping site. He posted this thread with an advertising link, and you two are bumping to keep it alive so that more people can see the ad.

It's sort of obvious. You all have usernames that follow the same pattern (bisyllabic lowercase nonsense words) and you all use the same variety of broken English.

The fact that this exact thread was posted a few days ago by someone with the same kind of nonsense username and broken English isn't helping any of you guys's case, either.

Can something be done about this? I'd take John Cena over this fake-Floodian trash any day of the week!

EDIT: The other fake Floodians in the thread should be obvious. Nonsense usernames, broken English, inexplicable misuse of backticks, inability to press the "Shift" key...

[Edited on 09.03.2011 2:01 AM PDT]

  • 09.03.2011 1:55 AM PDT

I spend too much time here.. too much time indeed.

I tweet?

Unfortunately this is an increasingly commom trend I've been watching over the last couple of years. I usually see it in the comment section of news stories or even in private messages, a few times I've seen them bold enough to post in a forum like you've mentioned.

Now comes the more unfortunate part, there's not much that can be done. Since it's spam you can personally report it where they can be perma baned by a mod, perhaps an IP ban could be put inplace, covering a whole IP range. Not as a solution a deterent, as I'm alost positive that it's coming from China. Romania would be my runner up guess followed by other asias countries. Anyway, these kind of things can't really be stopped, jus discourged enough they go looking for an easier target.

[Edited on 09.03.2011 3:47 AM PDT]

  • 09.03.2011 3:46 AM PDT

Yes, please PM one of us about it.

  • 09.03.2011 4:39 AM PDT