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Spammy Messages

by William Lee Sims · in Site Feedback · 12/15/2009 (2:31 am) · 9 replies

www.torquepowered.com/community/forums/viewthread/107363

This is the second time I've seen this and a quick search on Google finds me some more: www.google.com/search?q=Simulation+pret+immobilier+site%3Atorquepowered.com

I'm surprised we aren't seeing more spam on this site given the amount of public forums. It leads me to believe that Torque is doing some amount of blocking. But it looks like spammers are finding cracks.

#1
12/15/2009 (10:12 am)
Yeah, the manual spammers are annoying and we've seen a slight increase in them lately. They're tricky in that they're taking the time to be on topic. And thanks, it looks like your search results turned up one that snuck past us a couple months ago.
#2
12/15/2009 (4:01 pm)
I find the fact that they try to be on topic most entertaining. I like to imagine somebody not familiar with the engines trying to eek out a decent sentence. "Yeah, um, I bounced a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish, too, and it totally fixed the 3D model. Buy my simulated financial services!"
#3
12/15/2009 (5:09 pm)
Did someone say ...

www.weeklyreader.com/readandwriting/content/binary/spam%20boy.jpg
#4
12/16/2009 (12:16 am)
Isn't that the substance they use in warheads on Predator missiles? Hmmm, maybe it just resembles pink C4 way too much to be coincidental...
#5
12/16/2009 (1:01 am)
Based on my brief fascination with eating that stuff back in high school, I'd say it's not a coincidence.
#6
01/25/2010 (9:42 pm)
What are you guys talking about?
Both links at top seem to go to legimate posts.
#7
01/25/2010 (10:20 pm)
Only because the employees at GG are so awesome that they removed the spam from the posts.
#8
01/26/2010 (9:54 am)
So was the spam added without the author knowing, as implied by author comment in the original thread? And if so how?
#9
01/26/2010 (9:59 am)
They were just comments in the thread.