Spam?

264 · 2019-01-04T01:40:36.000Z

We all kicked spamer butt last night. Well done all.

chadvone · 2019-01-04T01:50:58.000Z

I have to work in the morning, so I won’t be on duty tonight.

tatasal · 2019-01-04T02:19:30.000Z

chadvone:

I have to work in the morning, so I won’t be on duty tonight.

Don’t worry, my time zone is opposite yours, we will man the fort.

Let’s just hope they have not regrouped and doubled their artillery for another carpet-bombing.

chadvone · 2019-01-04T03:07:51.000Z

bang bang, another one.

Edit, SB is on it.

hank · 2019-01-04T03:30:30.000Z

Damn bots.

Intelligencer – 26 Dec 18

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

Turns out, a lot of it, actually.

https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=19/01/03/1221205

“Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was ”bots masquerading as people”……

Lightbringer · 2019-01-04T03:48:17.000Z

hank:

“Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was ”bots masquerading as people”……

I don’t get that last part… so Skynet is lolling around watching cat-videos all day?

chadvone · 2019-01-04T03:55:13.000Z

Lightbringer:

hank:

“Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was ”bots masquerading as people”……

I don’t get that last part… so Skynet is lolling around watching cat-videos all day?

LOL> as I close my cat videos tab

hank · 2019-01-04T04:45:29.000Z

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&q=youtube+bot+click+ads

‘Biggest Ad Fraud Ever’: Hackers Make $5M A Day By Faking 300M Video Views

Forbes

'Biggest Ad Fraud Ever': Hackers Make $5M A Day By Faking 300M Video Views

'Methbot' makes record criminal funds by gaming the automated ad bidding market, claims security company.

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/30/98#subj3

Some were sent to browse the Internet to gather tracking cookies from other
websites, just as a human visitor would have done through regular behavior.
Fake people with fake cookies and fake social-media accounts, fake-moving
their fake cursors, fake-clicking on fake websites—the fraudsters had
essentially created a simulacrum of the Internet, where the only real things
were the ads.

How much of the Internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after
year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to
some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot.

Follow the money.

chadvone · 2019-01-04T05:02:40.000Z

Incomming

BlueSwordM · 2019-01-04T05:03:33.000Z

HOLY CRAP.

chadvone · 2019-01-04T05:07:37.000Z

I think SB should adjust the count for users with less then 100 post.

Like 1 or 2 mark as spams take them out

RobertB · 2019-01-04T05:27:48.000Z

Who’s on Spam patrol tonight?

264 · 2019-01-04T06:11:04.000Z

The spam is gone now. I must have missed the attack.

ToyKeeper · 2019-01-04T06:20:53.000Z

tatasal:

BlueSwordM:

I do wonder why they even try to post here.

Haha, perhaps they think of us as kids who keep on buying flashlights as undergraduate-types, so they’re trying to sell diplomas!

The spam isn’t for us to read… it’s for search engines to read. As far as search engines are concerned, every link here is an endorsement of the link’s destination.

The way pagerank algorithms work, higher-ranking sites get heavier weights in the search scoring calculations. A single link on a high-ranked site is worth thousands or even millions of links on Joe Random’s blog. So if spammers can get a link to “stick” on a popular site like BLF, it has a relatively high reward. This makes it worth a relatively large amount of effort.

thisnameisvalid · 2019-01-04T06:37:03.000Z

It’s back! Two more.

teacher · 2019-01-04T06:37:59.000Z

hank:

’Biggest Ad Fraud Ever’: Hackers Make $5M A Day By Faking 300M Video Views
'Biggest Ad Fraud Ever': Hackers Make $5M A Day By Faking 300M Video Views

. . . :person_facepalming: . . .
I would be completely retired in less than a week…… :money_mouth_face:

teacher · 2019-01-04T06:42:29.000Z

thisnameisvalid:

It’s back! Two more. :person_facepalming:

A quick ‘double tap’ nailed em’ both……

MascaratumB · 2019-01-04T09:24:26.000Z

Old and new threads are being “necromanced” right now with SPAM posts about “articles”
Hit the button

EDIT: username = admin88

teacher · 2019-01-04T10:23:31.000Z

MascaratumB:

Old and new threads are being “necromanced” right now with SPAM posts about “articles” :arrow_right:
Hit the button :smiling_imp:

EDIT: username = admin88

Yep, just ran across 3 by “admin88”. Two of them disappeared when I reported them.

Did Sb make it where after a certain number of reports the Spam post or thread is ‘Auto Deleted’??

That would save him a lot of work if he did, or could; do that….

sb56637 · 2019-01-04T12:55:00.000Z

teacher:

Did Sb make it where after a certain number of reports the Spam post or thread is ‘Auto Deleted’??

That would save him a lot of work if he did, or could; do that….

Yep, it’s always been like that. Even the spammer’s entire account can get automatically disabled. You can read about it here:

[08-Mar-2012] New SPAM mitigation scheme in place BLF Site-related Issues

Hi everyone, As you are all painfully aware, we've been under attack by spammers recently. First of all, my apologies for not taking measures sooner. For one thing, I was traveling for a few days and couldn't quickly intervene to delete the spammers and their posts. And secondly, I have been researching the available options for fighting spam. I have implemented a new SPAM mitigation system. I'm not going to mention the details of how it works in public so as to not tip off the spammers or oth…

So the past 8 hours saw significantly less spam than the previous period the night before. The few that got through were absolutely beaten to a pulp by many of you. :confounded: So thanks again for your vigilance. It looks like the few that got through this time were almost surely completely manual human posts, which are almost impossible to keep out. But at least the “Chinese firehose” spamming operation appears to have ended.