Spamverts
- J_Madison
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Spamverts
These spamverts for dating sites, Nike shoes, Ect.
These spammer do it because they think it advertises their site when spiders crawl on the site (doesn't work, Google stopped this eons ago). Unfortunately if anyone searches anything along those lines, it does bring the spammed site with it.
I would suggest instead of simply locking/archiving the threads, I suggest active measures to prevent crawlers from accessing archives, and editing the post content to have something other than the spammed content.
This will squash out their attempts to boost SEO for their spam sites, and prevent tgstation from showing up when these spamverts get searched.
These spammer do it because they think it advertises their site when spiders crawl on the site (doesn't work, Google stopped this eons ago). Unfortunately if anyone searches anything along those lines, it does bring the spammed site with it.
I would suggest instead of simply locking/archiving the threads, I suggest active measures to prevent crawlers from accessing archives, and editing the post content to have something other than the spammed content.
This will squash out their attempts to boost SEO for their spam sites, and prevent tgstation from showing up when these spamverts get searched.
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Re: Spamverts
This is the wrong subforum for this. Policy discussion is for game related rules. Moving to the website subforum.
- J_Madison
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Re: Spamverts
wilco understood. forgot this section existed.
- Shaps-cloud
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Re: Spamverts
Yeah this'll show them automated spambots who's the boss
- J_Madison
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Re: Spamverts
I suggested this because these spammers know they'll be banned ect, but they do so because they believe it will also boost their site's SEO and exposure. By editing the field to something else, you're denying them that.Shaps wrote:Yeah this'll show them automated spambots who's the boss
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Re: Spamverts
Shame the bots probably use throwaway emails. It would be fun to reply "AI, door" to them.
Even better if we got the contact info of the creators. Send them messages about how their bot is malf/rogue piece of shit and ignoring door requests.
Even better if we got the contact info of the creators. Send them messages about how their bot is malf/rogue piece of shit and ignoring door requests.
- Timbrewolf
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- TechnoAlchemist
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Re: Spamverts
I wonder how good the shoes are
- PKPenguin321
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Re: Spamverts
shoeposters are the best posters on these forums if you don't think so you can get out
i play Lauser McMauligan. clown name is Cold-Ass Honkey
i have three other top secret characters as well.
tell the best admin how good he is
i have three other top secret characters as well.
tell the best admin how good he is
Spoiler:
- oranges
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Re: Spamverts
They can only post in ban appeals I think, because most of them don't have a registered byond account.
Extending the byond account linking requirement to all forums will end the spam completely but might confuse people trying to appeal a ban on our forums.
Extending the byond account linking requirement to all forums will end the spam completely but might confuse people trying to appeal a ban on our forums.
- J_Madison
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Re: Spamverts
I wouldn't recommend changing the robots.txt to mess with the bots either. A lot of serveradmins rely on a simple google search to find bans.
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Re: Spamverts
wonderful.
- MrStonedOne
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Re: Spamverts
Ya I thought about that myself some time ago and blocked them from that subsection, I think I also blocked them from profile viewing to keep forum accounts with a website link in their profile from showing up to google and helping their rankings (Also because having that spam visible to google would massively hurt OUR rankings)
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Re: Spamverts
isn't there any way to just hard delete them so they don't show up in new posts?
- J_Madison
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Re: Spamverts
Yup, some of the guys I've worked with from other communities and websites had this sort of problem that was harming their SEO. What they did was edit the body of the message to something promoting the site and it would catch SEO with buzzwords because the spider would crawl and read the newly edited message. This would actually increase SEO in many cases.
For example this is a replacement message;
Now once a spider crawls this, anyone searching for an "open source code base", "space station 13 community", or a "gaming community responsive admins" would potentially be directed here.
For example this is a replacement message;
Code: Select all
tgstation13 best space station 13 website positive players responsive admins gaming community join us on our open source code base GitHub
- NikNakFlak
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Re: Spamverts
You can't trick web development google algorithms
- J_Madison
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Re: Spamverts
Actually from my experience, it has actually attracted higher SEO, and I can confirm that several players have joined a community over the words they searched.
Whilst it isn't a major difference, it's also a safety measure in case someone accidentally clicks on those links. And it looks better.
Whilst it isn't a major difference, it's also a safety measure in case someone accidentally clicks on those links. And it looks better.
- MrStonedOne
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Re: Spamverts
Generally i go thru every now and then and just delete their account and posts.
- NikNakFlak
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Re: Spamverts
Sorry to say but you are wrong.J_Madison wrote:Actually from my experience, it has actually attracted higher SEO, and I can confirm that several players have joined a community over the words they searched.
Whilst it isn't a major difference, it's also a safety measure in case someone accidentally clicks on those links. And it looks better.
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Re: Spamverts
Fucking oranges and j_mad took the bait on a spambot just now, KEK. That one was pretty clever actually.
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Re: Spamverts
what did he mean by this?
- J_Madison
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Re: Spamverts
Our good advice to someone potentially getting themselves in for a felony for misuse of jammers was for nought as the person we addressed was an automated script, oranges.
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Re: Spamverts
Spamverts = spamming reverts to goofcode?
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Re: Spamverts
i feel like we are not far off from the day when spamscripts begin to reliably pass turing tests
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