Am I Seeing Things Or Are We Getting An Influx Of "New" Members That.......

Karan Goel · 11-21-2009, 06:14 AM

Well, most of these are spammers!

Jill Carpenter · 11-21-2009, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by spartanic

Could be that these new people are leaving short posts so that they get passed the trial period faster.

Congrats! You just reached 50 posts!

sandmn · 11-21-2009, 07:19 AM

yeah, I agree on that

Kirahster · 11-21-2009, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by TMG Enterprises

Are you sure that's not a typo? I could have sworn it was stfu72.

Tina

When I read that post I was thinking the exact same thing!!

Nothing personal Steve! But that is what those letters make me think.

John Taylor · 11-21-2009, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by sandmn

yeah, I agree on that

That's not surprising as the vast majority
of your posts are one liners.

Jack Bastide · 11-21-2009, 07:34 AM

Your post is very good

JohnMcCabe · 11-21-2009, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Jag82

Oh no! That looks suspiciously like a description of my nickname.

Please don't keep an eye on me. =P

Why, you doin' sumpin funny we shouldn't sees?

TheWealthSquad · 11-21-2009, 09:22 AM

One line? I can't say hi in one line. I am very glad I don't have any numbers in my name. My parents were poor and numbers cost more than regular letters.

This was really good information that I couldn't find any where else. I am really glad you posted it. I am certain that I will learn much more from you in the coming days. I am going to mention this post to my friends so they can learn from it as well.

See spammer's just need to be more creative :0 (This is almost word for word what was left on one of my blog's recently.. one that simple had a filler page that said - Coming soon)

See I can't even stick to one line for a joke. Sigh. I think I need a time out.

sbucciarel · 11-21-2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Valdor Kiebach

yeah, I agree

ditto whoops ... message too short.

Jag82 · 11-21-2009, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ForeignProfessor

Yeah I guessed haha. Actually I use 1980 in my email address and also as the last 4 digits of my cellphone number for the same reason =) In fact '80 is more special than '82

Okay. '80 is good too. Both '80 and '82 are good.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

Why, you doin' sumpin funny we shouldn't sees?

Shhhh...not so loud.

tjmiller · 11-21-2009, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jag82

Okay. '80 is good too. Both '80 and '82 are good.

But '88 is the best. (A very significant year for me.) That is what I use in my email and Twitter and some forums, I actually use tjm88 as my nickname. Sure glad I didn't do that here! Wouldn't want to arouse any suspicion.

moneycoach123 · 11-21-2009, 04:40 PM

Yeah, I totally agree, what a great post keep up the great detective work!

Todd Sampson · 11-21-2009, 09:37 PM

Yes, I have noticed this and reported several of them recently.
I think as long as we stay vigilant this will not become a huge problem.

-Todd

Texas_Guns · 11-21-2009, 09:48 PM

i post this find interesting on my favorite subject.

(An actual spam comment on one of my blogs.
Just seemed so fitting here.)

- TG1837

mmurtha · 11-21-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Rod Cortez

.......that have a fairly short name followed by a number and the vast majority of their posts are like "yeah, I agree" or "what a great post!". They look like:

lulu22
broker71
emombu6

Where in the heck are they coming from? I say we keep a close eye on these.......

RoD

Rod,

Yup, and names like that with numbers attached usually means they are using automated software to spam with - whether it be for links in their profiles or simply to build post count to get sig links.

paulie888 · 11-21-2009, 10:43 PM

I agree, it's really so annoying when they put in some idiotic 2 or 3 word sentence to raise their post count. People in here are not stupid, they're going to figure out you're nothing more than a spam-tastic jackass once you do it a few times. They must have left their brains behind when they joined this forum...lol

Paul

um1001 · 11-21-2009, 10:48 PM

Well I admit that my 'handle' sounds like one of these spammers but the "um" actually stands for Umbrelo Media, which is the name of my business.

In retrospect, I should have joined with my actual name.

Rod Cortez · 11-23-2009, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by um1001

Well I admit that my 'handle' sounds like one of these spammers but the "um" actually stands for Umbrelo Media, which is the name of my business.

In retrospect, I should have joined with my actual name.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but you used to be able to submit a support ticket via the help desk and have them change your user name. That's how I did it a couple years ago.

RoD

Steven Fullman · 11-23-2009, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Kirahster

When I read that post I was thinking the exact same thing!!

Nothing personal Steve! But that is what those letters make me think.

I should've seen that one coming, hey.

I've long since forgotten all those IRC acronyms...

stfu72

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11-21-2009, 10:48 PM	#67
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