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#1 2010-12-30 16:16:04
Randomly posting blocks...
I've seen this happening a lot... Usually it's new users, but not always.
A user posts a perfectly normal post, but then randomly puts something like this at the end of it:
[blocks]<play sound[ BANANA[/blocks]
Why exactly do people do this? Are they experimenting with the blocks, or is it some kind of modern spam?
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#3 2010-12-30 20:48:49
Re: Randomly posting blocks...
WeirdF wrote:
I've seen this happening a lot... Usually it's new users, but not always.
A user posts a perfectly normal post, but then randomly puts something like this at the end of it:
[blocks]<play sound[ BANANA[/blocks]
Why exactly do people do this? Are they experimenting with the blocks, or is it some kind of modern spam?
Maybe both.
<( aaa <=>2333 )>
Last edited by kimmy123 (2010-12-30 20:49:00)
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#4 2010-12-30 20:52:10
Re: Randomly posting blocks...
I'd say that nearly all of the spam we get is posts like such:
NewUser wrote:
<mouse down?><color[ ]is over[ <color[ ]is over[ <turn cw( )degrees><point in direction( <glide( )secs to x
)y
[/blocks]
Generally, it's just new users getting used to the site. If they do this excessively, they may get a notification from the Scratch Team. But if they just make one or two posts, it's not that big a deal, so we just remove it.
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