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jeb wrote: How is that supposed to work? I'm some spammer, I scripted some accounts to spam for me and I bombard a site like this with 500 Viagra ads or whatever. How does this monetize anything? Does someone need to click through? Are they loading beacons in pixels? What's the upside to this?
I have no idea what was going on with this. The IPs were from Japan, and the posts were all in Japanese (I think - it looked like one bot was posting with a different set of characters than the other). There were no links in the posts. The links were in the titles, which makes them non-links. So they were sophisticated enough to get through two firewalls and our flood projection and create some chaos, but overall kind of stupid if their goal was to monetize anything or even plant some backlinks.
ETA: Also, forum spammers are typically getting paid to post x number of posts, or plant x number of back links, so they kind of don't care if what they are getting paid to post is stupid.
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I wonder if it's not a scam in and on itself. That is, it's not that you make a lot of money from people clicking the links, it's that you ask someone for money to "promote" their site, spam the web and then don't care if their 5000 hits end up being worthless.jeb wrote: How is that supposed to work? I'm some spammer, I scripted some accounts to spam for me and I bombard a site like this with 500 Viagra ads or whatever. How does this monetize anything? Does someone need to click through? Are they loading beacons in pixels? What's the upside to this?
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mtagge wrote: Most of the ones I saw were Korean, but mine could have been a different batch. What I am curious about is some of them had view numbers between 4 and 8. Who the heck was actually looking into the threads? Were they unique visitors or just AmeriTrashers on a lark?
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mtagge wrote: Most of the ones I saw were Korean, but mine could have been a different batch. What I am curious about is some of them had view numbers between 4 and 8. Who the heck was actually looking into the threads? Were they unique visitors or just AmeriTrashers on a lark?
The Korean must have been the character set I didn't recognize. We just got hit with a fourth bot with a Philipinnes IP tonight. I've turned on the stinking CAPTCHA for new users to post in the forum. Hope it at least slows them down and that our stinking key is still valid.
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