spammers are at work again

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Post by phalt »

Doing our best to keep on top of it!
Thanks for helping out mods - it seems to pick up one day then stop all together for a while :/


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Hey guys,

I stumbled across what appears to be spam dropped into the comments of this project:

https://www.xcore.com/projects/arcade-shield
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thanks Skeksis, cleaned up (some other projects were also spammed) !!!
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"Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so." - Douglas Adams
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Got him, thanks.
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Spammers again!
Seems 1 project has been spamed. If you find anyother ones spamed let's know.
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this time they are more clever: They copy arbitray text from xcore to link their sites: https://www.xcore.com/projects/hl1606-driver-xmos (latest 2 comments)
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They're getting cheeky. Though I can't help but feel it's only a few guys.

I'm on the site nearly constantly and they seem to strike when I am online so hopefully they'll give up eventually.

Everyone is smart enough to realise they're spammers.

Deleted posts and removed user accounts :)
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Yeah ... idem for the posts I deleted, they had some text from true posts.
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phalt wrote:They're getting cheeky. Though I can't help but feel it's only a few guys.

I'm on the site nearly constantly and they seem to strike when I am online so hopefully they'll give up eventually.

Everyone is smart enough to realise they're spammers.

Deleted posts and removed user accounts :)
Isn't it perhaps cheaper to implement us a 'mark as spam' button. So you can concentrate on surfing on and we can simply mark the spam when we see it - so that you can delete it after your lunch break and throw those users out.
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