Spammer

[bobbinwales]

Can someone ban this spammer kingcool please...he done 57 spam posts this morning on old threads. https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/members/kingcool/
There's others too. There were some yesterday like this too

[Atheist]

It's not easy to fight against bots. These aren't real people who are busy tapping keyboards.

[Etch]

Faazimm, 60 posts now, is this a record?:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/members/faazimm/answers/

[bobbinwales]

Well its 60 posts as faazzim, similar as faizanm, then another name... then sophie-grace and lots of others.

[royfromaus]

Wouldn't it be easier to make Bob-a-Mod?

[bobbinwales]

...and faizenbanker and lots more...
over the last few days theres been hundreds and hundreds in body and soul.... as someone (Dizmo?) pointed out yesterday there all on threads about being overweight...looks like there doing a search on 'fat' Really the system should pick these up,
But thanks naomi your doing a great job as a mod, not just with spam but sorting out spats too, good one

[bobbinwales]

ha no chance roy... they get alot of flack and am out at work all day anyway, well for 5-6 days a week
Anyway am sure a bit of effort and thought from techies could solve this mass spamming, all this keto and gummies stuff...mods and us should'nt after to do all of it

[Rosetta]

surely the techies can do something about this. I vaguely remember having to type in a copy of a few random letters/numbers when signing up on a website or ticking a box saying I am not a bot. I suspect however that the footfall from all these spammers boosts numbers and subsequent advertisers for AB

[bobbinwales]

^agreed Rosetta.... no incentive to tackle it... i think the new managements just put the site out to grass

[naomi24]

He’s certainly determined.

[bobbinwales]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/members/ellen670/

[bobbinwales]

Just 81 so far today from ellen

[naomi24]

She’s gone. Thanks Bob.

[bobbinwales]

Faaz is back naomi but must be tired

[naomi24]

Where bob?

[scorpiojo]

Here, Naomi:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Science/Question1527685-4.html#answer-13474240

[naomi24]

Thanks scorpiojo. He's been splatted!

[scorpiojo]

Excellent! :-)

[bobbinwales]

Some of these old threads like this one
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Jobs-and-Education/Question441534.html
just seem to keep getting spammed time&time again.
One suggestion to the Eds/mod's is to close these old threads to new answers especially if there like 15 years old, once they start getting spammed.
Another option a course is to just let them keep spamming, .. in the scheme of things its not effecting current threads. May be its not worth the effort of Naomi and people like me flagging/reporting them??? Its better they spam on old threads than new ones so maybe just ignore it?

[naomi24]

Bob, it would be worth putting your question to the Eds separately - still in the Editor’s Blog. They might not be reading this thread and only they know their preferences.

[Canary42]

As Atheist has explained - these aren't actual people, they're bots . They could, if set up appropriately, post hundreds as fast as the targeted site can accept them, with the name changing for each one.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot