Haha, perhaps they think of us as kids who keep on buying flashlights as undergraduate-types, so they’re trying to sell diplomas!
We all kicked spamer butt last night. Well done all.
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.
bang bang, another one.
Edit, SB is on it.
Damn bots.
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”……
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
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
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/30/98#subj3
Follow the money.
Incomming
HOLY CRAP.
I think SB should adjust the count for users with less then 100 post.
Like 1 or 2 mark as spams take them out
Who’s on Spam patrol tonight?
The spam is gone now. I must have missed the attack.
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.
It’s back! Two more. 
. . . :person_facepalming: . . .
I would be completely retired in less than a week…… :money_mouth_face:
A quick ‘double tap’ nailed em’ both…… 
Old and new threads are being “necromanced” right now with SPAM posts about “articles” 
Hit the button 
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….