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100!?!
Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 1
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:56 am Post subject: Member count? |
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Is the member count on the bottom of the index accurate? |
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kap Minister of Paranoia
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 2103 Location: I hate you.
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Why? |
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Xkeeper
Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 327 Location: Henderson, NV
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Someone registered just to say this?..
Probably; I know it's been pretty high for quite some time now. |
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Evan
Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 948
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Come on guys, obvious spambot is obvious. |
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Xkeeper
Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 327 Location: Henderson, NV
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Evan wrote: | Come on guys, obvious spambot is obvious. |
I don't think this is a spambot, though. That's the thing. |
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kap Minister of Paranoia
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 2103 Location: I hate you.
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 3:08 am Post subject: |
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Xkeeper wrote: | Evan wrote: | Come on guys, obvious spambot is obvious. |
I don't think this is a spambot, though. That's the thing. |
Me neither, they tend to say stupider things. Hell, I dunno.
Yeah, stupider. |
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KingMike
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 4:14 am Post subject: |
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It sounded like a dumb enough comment for my spambot-sense. |
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gilbert cheung
Joined: 25 Nov 2010 Posts: 33 Location: Hong Kong
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:08 am Post subject: |
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I think if it was a real person, (s)he just spotted the member count was 1001 (seeing that the count became 1002 after (s)he registered and posted), mistaken it as just 100!, thought it was unusual and decided to take the time to register for an account and start this (in fact it made me hop through hoops to be able to successfully register here... well... not actually what happened, but close). The odd thing is, this person probably mistaken the name field as information for the thread (like the subject field) and just put in "100!" there.
Anyway, it can be just a spambot. We're not sure about it until (s)he makes more posts or the post above is altered to have some link added though. |
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Evan
Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 948
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:40 am Post subject: |
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I administer enough message boards to note the behavior of bots. They have got better over time to hide their methods. Essentially, they sign up, make some sort of obscure, but not necessarily spammy subject. Then after a few weeks, they will add links to their profile, which will increase the Google search rank of their sites. |
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