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Owner signs up for "reputable" company to help them get onto the first page of google results. "Reputable" company helps with this by getting backlinks to sites that have a long time reputation like ours so that it helps them move their customer up.

Most of them get nuked, they bank on one or two staying and google not catching that they are spamming.

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The spammers use known weaknesses in websites, and they share their notes. My last business was web-based sales of custom and prototype parts and it quickly got to where it was a full time job keeping up with patches and rooting out malware just to keep from getting too far behind. One never gets ahead, especially when scripts exist that exploit multiple minor bugs. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerabilit ... Phpbb.html

The attacks we see (new user account spam) is easy to stop by shutting down automatic account activation...but that puts more load on the staff. (Who approves members when things are locked down - admins or mods?)

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sikacz wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:13 am Is this becoming a daily thing?
at least two of them last night and a couple of new members worth looking into. i think we need a sentience check at the gate to weed out the bots. something simple like "how much is two plus four?"
and yes, thank you, admins. if there's more we lowly commoners can do to help, please let us know.
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[sarcasm]hunt them down and murder them in their sleep. torture them until they beg for death. [/sarcasm]

i don't know. there are people here far more qualified to answer that than i. i do think it might be useful to sort them by type, because the bots can be screened out at the door, at least until their AI improves. anything else requires a person at the switch, which costs someone something, time and/or money. i notice this last new assignment/plagarism guy claimed to be an australian marketing director, which would be refreshing in its candor. maybe a polite e-mail asking him to desist?

ultimately, there seems to be no penalty, no cost associated with spamming. someone pays someone else to spam, maybe 1 of 1000 actually generates some revenue, and apparently that's enough, win-win for the spammers, lose-lose for the rest of us. interesting problem.
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SPAM could be a new information war tactic. Going off the deep end here, but that is what I would do if I was in charge of some countries electronic warfare section. Idea is to force the enemy to increase restrictions and decrease access to information and hinder the flow. I think there are state actors behind things like this.
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agree, the sheer volume of it makes it harder to tell what is chaff and what is useful information. and if we choose not to ignore it, we have to invest resources in countermeasures.
aha. warrior forum. a nest of them, and a throng of wannabes. SEO, backlinks the whole deal. "marketing".
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One thing I did on a phpBB forum that I admined for a while was I added a custom question on the account registration page. We could do something similar here. Something like

"The Constitution guarantees the right to keep and bear what?"

A real person will know to answer "arms" but a generic spam bot won't get it. People could still target this site explicitly, but most spammers are looking for an easy time and don't go coding hacks in their spam bots just for particular forums.
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I think paranoia is a natural quality of members of this forum, so suspicion of new members who a) don't respond after their first post, or b) may be here to troll (our "friends" at the NY Gun forum (!) ) makes us nervous.

Before members who are long-time shooters jump in to give me shit, I would like to point out that many of us newer shooters, specifically like myself, became shooters BECAUSE of our justifiable paranoia. As I've said many times before: The morning after the shit-stain "won" his stolen election, unleashing every kind of bigot hatred, and accelerating hate crimes, we decided to become gun owners.

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