Holy WTF Interviews spam!

Pettro · Post by **Pettro** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:46 pm

I saw the spam.
What was the purpose? Who earns what from doing that??nothing made sense to me..
just curious

shypht · Post by **shypht** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:25 pm

the spam gets picked up by search engine robots / spiders and gets indexed when they crawl the forum. Searching for those words brings up this site, but can also increase the rankings of the sites they are spamming for because other sites mention it / link to it / etc.

In theory, those sites then get increased traffic and/or ad revenue due to more clicks and impressions.

The spam posts are usually automated and simply crawl the net looking for pretty much anything it can automatically post to.

The software running this forum is a popular and widely used one, so chances are there are a number of auto-spammers that know how to login/register/post/etc or know if guest accounts/etc are enabled or not.

LouisVee · Post by **LouisVee** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:24 am

Thx shypth for the info! and John Clees for the dirty work -.-

Post by **John Clees** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:22 am

^^

never afraid to get my hands dirty...

can't have a this forum sabotaged by a bunch of gutter sluts... lol

sherman · Post by **sherman** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:59 am

john clees wrote:all done : only 150 post to remove..

fun : fun

Thanks, very much appreciated.

Post by **John Clees** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:51 am

thank you for taking the time to notice and express your thoughts..