Trained monkeys?

Dorsetmike

Member
These random text spam posts that occur quite a bit, I'm beginning to wonder if they are preliminary exercises for the legendary legion of monkeys typing continuously in an effort to reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare.

If so, and if we can find where they are based, perhaps somebody could go in and put them back to off line word processors and destroy any web connection.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
I am not sure how these posts work. If there is no link to click on what is the point?
Can anyone explain please.

teddy
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Here is my take on the situation: You can "covertly and discretely" trace where those random posts come from - They emanate from East Asia. A IT scientist acquaintance spoke to me bout a massive DOS attack on the offending servers would disrupt those "trained monkeys" but only temporarily. A side-effect would probably mean disrupted service across the www. Legal authorities can always raid server halls and dismantle equipment - Would China listen to Russian or American complaints? Don't hold your breath.
 

Dorsetmike

Member
I am not sure how these posts work. If there is no link to click on what is the point?
Can anyone explain please.

teddy

As far as I can make out they (this type of spammer) do it just because they can and to disrupt and annoy those of us on the receiving end. Some contain links others don't, could never figure why!
 

Krummhorn

Administrator
Staff member
ADMINISTRATOR
The reason they do this is for getting "pingbacks" ... they garner attention in that manner, and they hope that it will direct people to their personal profile page where they, nine times out of ten, have filled every available space of it with promotional links and urls. Of course, when people do check those profiles, they see nothing ... as we have been there already and wiped all those promo links and urls. :devil:

They also usually resister with one IP and post with another IP ... their method of trying not to get caught ... but we are wise to their methods and in effect block both IP's from registering again as well as reporting them to an international database of known spammers that forum admins use to check up on new registrations.

Most new spam posts get auto-tagged by our own internal spam-bot ... our internal spam-bot searches for spam type things (it learns as it goes along) in posts and then flags the post and puts it into moderation queue ... only forum staff can "see" the posts in moderation queue, and we perform the ritual banning on those, delete the posts and report those users to the international database. As a forum admin, I have an API "key" for entering data into that online database.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
These random text spam posts that occur quite a bit, I'm beginning to wonder if they are preliminary exercises for the legendary legion of monkeys typing continuously in an effort to reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare.

Well John Watts would be a suspect :rolleyes: Sorry John...honest.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
But w3e would miss him Colin. I always find his posts interesting................

teddy
 
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