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#2 2012-07-06 19:03:01
- stevetheipad
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- Registered: 2011-08-06
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Re: Spam!
Some days are worse than others, it can be due to a number of things. Just flag and walk on. 
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#4 2012-07-06 19:07:14
- stevetheipad
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Re: Spam!
coolhogs wrote:
I mean, commercial spam.
Why?
The bots were fed extra cereal today. 
I don't know, like I said, there are sometimes really bad outbreaks, and some days there's no spam at all.
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#5 2012-07-06 19:09:26
- RedRocker227
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- Registered: 2011-10-26
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Re: Spam!
Most of the spammers here are actual humans, so it's pretty much random when they come.
Why
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#6 2012-07-06 19:10:00
- berberberber
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- Registered: 2012-03-08
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Re: Spam!
Yeah. Yesterday I saw an advertisememt for Polo Shirts. Just now, I saw football in the collaborations.
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#7 2012-07-06 23:52:37
- cheddargirl
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- Registered: 2008-09-15
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Spam!
coolhogs wrote:
I mean, commercial spam.
Why?
There are websites and forums dedicated to teaching commercial spamming (sad, but true); I've noticed that the Scratch website gets a lot of spam when someone comes out with a list of websites for commercial spamming and Scratch is on that list, this is probably what happened. 
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)#10 2012-07-07 01:21:16
- cheddargirl
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Re: Spam!
jvvg wrote:
I read that getting linked on a .edu domain helps your rank on search engines a lot, which is probably why they want to spam this site.
Yeah, it does, a lot of EDU websites like Scratch get spammed a lot because of it. It really sucks when people try to spam here for profit reasons.
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#12 2012-07-07 02:12:39
Re: Spam!
cheddargirl wrote:
jvvg wrote:
I read that getting linked on a .edu domain helps your rank on search engines a lot, which is probably why they want to spam this site.
Yeah, it does, a lot of EDU websites like Scratch get spammed a lot because of it. It really sucks when people try to spam here for profit reasons.
Yeah. However, that can be used in good ways too. LS97 and I both have links to the FutureSight website in our sigs, so there are over 4000 legitimately generated links.
I really wish that people would start being decent and just promote their site normally.
However, about the spike recently, I now see one-two spam posts every week instead of zero-one.
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#13 2012-07-07 09:44:23
- Firedrake969
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- Registered: 2011-11-24
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Re: Spam!
Where is all this? Luckily, I have not seen it.
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#14 2012-07-07 10:22:27
- Molybdenum
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- Registered: 2012-06-17
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Re: Spam!
<I think I saw 4 or 5 in the new scratchers forum, and 3 in the project ideas (?) forum, all on the same day. I think they were mostly about football/rugby.>
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#15 2012-07-07 10:57:26
Re: Spam!
berberberber wrote:
Yeah. Yesterday I saw an advertisememt for Polo Shirts. Just now, I saw football in the collaborations.
It wasn't football, it was rugby. Between the bulls and the sharks, it was one of the biggest games here.
Did I mention I hate both rugby and spammers?
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