2024-11-28, 13:12
(2024-11-28, 07:47)Eric.Wouters Wrote: not a bot, a spammer
they use some hidden links, I take about 10 a week out of the forum. They first add some post with nothing in and come back later to add it sneaky and format it invisible like white text or the final point of a sentence. Or they use their profile to add links to some other site (backlinking)
for the record, the backlinks from profiles are 'dead' ducks so don't waste your and my time with this childish behavior.
In this case I let the post with taking out the link you see in atached image, but user is again blacklisted.
Yeah, they waste a lot of our time... they're so frequent we virtually have to examine every new post... and check every suspicious post for possible backlink in their profile. PITA and a waste of time...
So far, just in 2024, couple of hundred banned id's alone...
and this DOESN'T count questionable AI crap, and others we might have missed....
...especially if they've inserted a link in a quoted post ...
Good Job Eric! Stay on it... less work for me et.al.