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Post By Jamo
03-10-2018, 01:02 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: San Antonio Valley Ca,
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Cobra Make, Engine:
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Spam, What's the point?
Somebody explain to me what the point of going through the steps to sign up for a forum and just spam it? I don't get it. Is there a reason or something to gain?
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03-10-2018, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Mokena,
IL
Cobra Make, Engine: Backdraft SBF-302
Posts: 325
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What can we do to reduce it ?
There is a function to 'report'posts, but does this help the admins at all ?
//gratuitous Russian hacker comments
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03-10-2018, 02:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: San Antonio,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BDR #509, 347 S
Posts: 103
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I've wondered the same thing... but I do think reporting it helps. They seem to typically get reported immediately and the post gets removed... but in many cases the thread remains... taking up quite a few spaces on the "active threads" list as a result.
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03-10-2018, 02:18 PM
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I was just wondering what the point of doing it is? They don't appear as a hack. It looks to me like someone signs up just to spam. You have to be a member to post.
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03-10-2018, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Brisbane,
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The strange thing is how do they create a thread with no content?
In other words, replying to one becomes the first post, before you can report it.
Last edited by Gaz64; 03-10-2018 at 08:50 PM..
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03-10-2018, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Greenville,
SC
Cobra Make, Engine: 70 Shelby convertible, ERA-289 FIA, 65 Sunbeam Tiger, mystery Ford powered 2dr convertible
Posts: 12,685
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redmt
Somebody explain to me what the point of going through the steps to sign up for a forum and just spam it? I don't get it. Is there a reason or something to gain?
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There is not a human being behind this, but a "spam bot", a computer who's sole life is to probe forums software and post links. It boils down to the same thing that spam callers looking for a sucker to bite on their "apple" (so to speak), all it takes is one click on a link enclosed by an unsuspecting end user, and a click through profit has now been made. 1-2 cents at a time. Sometimes it's just getting that link out to the web so web bots such as google and many others grab it and archive it. Again, times it by a million such posts in a 24 hour day, and you start to see the profit center emerge.
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03-10-2018, 03:00 PM
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Location: San Antonio Valley Ca,
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I feel so,,,,INVADED!!!
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03-10-2018, 06:27 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Adelaide,
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Cobra Make, Engine: AP 289FIA 'English' spec.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BDR_Boy
....They seem to typically get reported immediately and the post gets removed... but in many cases the thread remains... taking up quite a few spaces on the "active threads" list as a result.
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Agreed.
Moderators....are the offending threads able to be deleted?
Cheers,
Glen
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03-10-2018, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: (Beautiful) Sequim,
WA
Cobra Make, Engine: Pacific Roadster, 347 cu.in. 5-speed
Posts: 1,994
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Ditto, on xb-60. Anything more, we as members can do to stop this silliness?
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03-10-2018, 10:47 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Naracoorte,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CR Cobra 3169
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The problem is that you have to click on the post to be able to report it. If you mouse over the heading you can see it is spam without opening it. 
JD
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03-10-2018, 11:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Fresno,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 184/482ci Shelby
Posts: 14,445
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Every few months, some of you ask the same damn questions...
There are several folks who get it...and instead of wasting time b!tching about it, they help me by reporting the spams and I generally delete them within minutes when I'm online and not working. The others get deleted within a few hours. When someone reports it, I look everywhere else and delete dozens because they come in swarms (see Mustang's post). I really appreciate the help of these folks...it truly helps me.
Don't want advice from any of you nerd-types...I'm not the owner/administrator, and frankly I don't give a damn.
Repeated questions about how to report spam may be treated as spam. Look at the top of the Cobra Talk page...there's a sticky.
The threadstarter here asked a valid question, but some folks just can't read.
Don't like my response? I don't care.
Have a nice day. 
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