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The past couple of days we encountered successive waves of so-called "Korean SEO spam".
We keep systematically nuking that spam (hard delete: all spam posts merged + all contents replaced by a single character + merger with a dedicated dummy post for total annihilation of the spam + IP addresses permantly banned). Give us a heads-up if you spot more spam surfacing for more than a day.
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Not going to discuss further details. Give us a heads-up if you spot more spam surfacing for more than a day.
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The past couple of days we keep encountering successive waves of Korean SEO spam, promoting the same website.
Spam bots try to outsmart search strings by replacing characters of the spam website name (to no avail). Always surfacing (early) morning GMT in 'The Sports Lounge' section. Lately systematically four posts per newly created spam account. We systematically 'sanitize' the section and permanently ban the accounts. But we know that they will keep coming back. Keep reporting those posts. ![]()
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Early morning riser here. I’ll be on the lookout in the sports forum. I normally don’t pay attention to that forum.
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The referenced spam series are usually posted (early) morning in Europe (noon/afternoon in the East/Far East - night in the USA) in "The Sports Lounge" section.
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Can you make that section (and the rest of the OT section for that matter) as only visible to logged-in users? That would take away their SEO value when crawlers cannot index those pages any more, and probably also save gobs of bandwidth and SQL database reads by crawlers retrieving multiple decades of posting cruft.....
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I just flagged a bunch of them. Pretty ironic I can’t rapid fire report them. I have to wait 30 seconds between reports.
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I too have been frustrated w/30sec and the last 2days I think the secondary spam link feels broken or not responding when clicked like I've been blocked from that selection.
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I got close to 10 of them at around 4:30 am
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And I finished them off. We make a good early morning tag team.
Happy Friday.
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