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Old 01-22-2010, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by SAEalumnus View Post
As best we can tell, the spam started increasing after ads started appearing on GC.

There have been a few ideas kicked around over the years, but none of them have really been put into place. Only John has that kind of access.
Do you (or any of the mods, maybe?) know if he has a game plan for putting anything into place?


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Originally Posted by ree-Xi View Post
So is it a program (bot) creating the user accounts, adding sigs and posting spam, or does it require a live person? Some of the spam are scarily close to topic. Do people who spam really think that doing so increases traffic and sales or is the point just to annoy?
I was thinking the same thing. They seem to be getting smarter.
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