Whats with the spam on this website?

#1 Jun 20, 2016 (Old Gods)
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I'm not complaining really about the spam I see all the time on the website but Im mainly curious. What are people trying to achieve by doing it?

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#3 Jun 20, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Seems like hearthpwn is soldout. Cause i am reporting every single spam(advertisement) but any spam messages were banned

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#4 Jun 20, 2016 (Old Gods)
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What spam? I love these relevant threads about true love in Mumbai and the Pakistani fortuneteller.

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#5 Jun 20, 2016 (Old Gods)

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Quote from Elothel >>

What spam? I love these relevant threads about true love in Mumbai and the Pakistani fortuneteller.

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#6 Jun 20, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Quote from RayyaR79 >>

I'm not complaining really about the spam I see all the time on the website but Im mainly curious. What are people trying to achieve by doing it?

I think they're trying to boost their Google rank. Ie, how high in the list their site will appear in search engines. That's what the random ads with links are for, they're presumably not expecting anyone to actually click them.

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#7 Jun 20, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Dont be a fool and report every spam thread you see, there is a golden achievement if you are successful enough ;)

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#8 Jun 20, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Isn't there a way to mess with the phone number they're advertising, for instance?

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#9 Jun 22, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wanna send them some dick pics?

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#10 Jun 22, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Quote from zorthander >>

Dont be a fool and report every spam thread you see, there is a golden achievement if you are successful enough ;)

Yep, reporting them is the answer, and you will eventually get the achievement.

However, there's no point reporting more than 1 thread from the same spammer. When a mod spam-bans a thread, it automatically deletes all the other posts made by the same account. You only get progress toward the achievement for the one that the mod deleted, not for the others that got deleted automatically.

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#11 Jun 22, 2016 (Old Gods)
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I did report a lot of them one by one, but that's too much work lol

nowadays I report the poster, makes it easier for the crew too.

btw I am sure it's already mentioned/suggested before in the site feedback forum, but any option for an IP Ban (maybe/hopefully) ?

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#12 Jun 22, 2016 (Old Gods)
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I did report a lot of them one by one, but that's too much work lol

nowadays I report the poster, makes it easier for the crew too.

Actually, it doesn't make it easier for us. If we get a report about a thread, we immediately see the thread title in the report. That makes it really easy for us, because if it says "babaji vashikaran +91XXXXXX love magic" or whatever then we already know that it's a spammer without having to look at the post. But if you just report the account, then we have to click on the account and click to see that account's posts before we can safely ban-hammer it. It sounds like a small difference, but when you're doing that (literally) dozens of times every day, the extra clicks add up.

Just go to one thread and report it, then ignore all the other threads by the same spammer.

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#14 Jun 29, 2016 (Old Gods)
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#15 Jun 29, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Oh right, that spam... I thought this was a thread complaining about all the 'OMG CARD X is so OP NERF!' / 'What should I craft????' / 'When is the next expansion coming out?' threads :p

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