Spam or not?

[Super_User]

So we got this post on our forum. And i dont know if its spam or not. Please tell me :\

Great post. I was checking continuously this blog and I'm impressed! Very helpful information particularly the last part Snip I care for such information a lot. I was looking for this particular information for a very long time. Thank you and best of luck.

 

[TrixieTang]

Yeah, that's definitely spam.

 

[Alex.]

Mhmm

 

[Namorat]

Don't get blinded by the flattery...
What I wonder, though, is how they don't try to hide the links or make them less prominent and outstanding from their wording.

The spam I put on here at TAZ is much better, I think ^^

 

[Lycaon]

Yeah without a doubt that's spam.

The spam I put on here at TAZ is much better, I think ^^

You wish

 

[Namorat]

You wish

I didn't mean the quality of the posts, which could arguably be even worse, but the links I hid in some posts.

 

[bucket]

it's spam.

are you going to leave their link in the original post here?

 

[Alex Apple]

Despite the vaguely flattering (if badly worded) text, the very fact it's got an odd link randomly plonked in the middle of it - in Polish, even - for no apparent reason should ring your spam alarm bells very quickly.

 

[Lycaon]

are you going to leave their link in the original post here?

That's a good point.

I've removed the offending link from the quoted text. I think it's fair to say that we know it's spam now.

 

[Indigowarrior]

Most certainly Spam.
I got my first spammer yesterday. The spammer just posted about 50 links in one post. He was deleted and banned quite quickly.

 

[Namorat]

[it] should ring your spam alarm bells very quickly.

And loudly. Really, really loudly.

 

[super_mecha]

how do these spam bots work? i got a spambot when my forum was still new and had about 10 members

 

[Panupat]

automated script that search the net for posting scripts. Once it finds one, it sends data directly to it without even having to read.

 

[Lochie]

While it appears innocent, there is nearly always a link to the advertisers website. The message generally makes little sense.

 

[Snooks]

how do these spam bots work? i got a spambot when my forum was still new and had about 10 members

I use MyBB and just wanted to see how SMF worked. So i setup a forum on an empty domain name, checked a few things, saw how they worked and left it at that.

About 6 weeks later i realised i still had it.....i logged in and i had over 600 members with 4K posts (RAFLMAO)

All spam and auto bots and mainly pharmacy links. It was amazing

 

[strugar]

Not blatant spam; I'd rather say it's quite useless post, with spam potential.

What I wonder, though, is how they don't try to hide the links or make them less prominent and outstanding from their wording.

Here is one possibility: I spotted posts by some guy very similar to this described in original post here - some polite sentences, without any real value. However, when I looked posts in "Edit" mode, I noticed inserted image, which was not visible in post at all; it appeared, image was 1 x 1 size, so it indeed was invisible; after that, all he needed to do was to replace that 1 x 1 image with some larger image, and, hop!, it would appear in all his posts all at once!