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Spamverts

Post by J_Madison » #212413

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.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by Shadowlight213 » #212436

This is the wrong subforum for this. Policy discussion is for game related rules. Moving to the website subforum.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by J_Madison » #212446

wilco understood. forgot this section existed.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by Shaps-cloud » #212453

Yeah this'll show them automated spambots who's the boss
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Re: Spamverts

Post by J_Madison » #212461

Shaps wrote:Yeah this'll show them automated spambots who's the boss
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.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by Shadowlight213 » #212462

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.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by Timbrewolf » #212473

You mean I can't buy Tramadol here?
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Re: Spamverts

Post by TechnoAlchemist » #212492

I wonder how good the shoes are
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Post by PKPenguin321 » #212502

shoeposters are the best posters on these forums if you don't think so you can get out
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Re: Spamverts

Post by oranges » #212517

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.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by J_Madison » #212521

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

Post by MrStonedOne » #212568

Spiders can not access the deleted/archived section.

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Re: Spamverts

Post by J_Madison » #212570

wonderful.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by MrStonedOne » #212573

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

Post by Shaps-cloud » #212583

isn't there any way to just hard delete them so they don't show up in new posts?
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Re: Spamverts

Post by J_Madison » #212587

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;

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tgstation13 best space station 13 website positive players responsive admins gaming community join us on our open source code base GitHub
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.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by NikNakFlak » #212589

You can't trick web development google algorithms
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Re: Spamverts

Post by J_Madison » #212590

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

Post by MrStonedOne » #212591

Generally i go thru every now and then and just delete their account and posts.
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Re: Spamverts

Post by NikNakFlak » #212592

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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Post by Saegrimr » #212618

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

Post by oranges » #212624

what did he mean by this?
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Re: Spamverts

Post by J_Madison » #212639

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

Post by TheColdTurtle » #212978

Link it, I wanna see
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Re: Spamverts

Post by kevinz000 » #213213

Spamverts = spamming reverts to goofcode?
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Re: Spamverts

Post by Cik » #213336

i feel like we are not far off from the day when spamscripts begin to reliably pass turing tests
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