Attention mods: there are some spammers among us

[reuben]

Originally Posted by reuben

25 posts in one hour. You're almost there.

40 posts in 1.5 hours. Good job.

[fiamme red]

Gaggi is a spammer. Interestingly, he (she? it?) only has three posts since May.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...60#post3181060

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...45#post3109545

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...23#post3094423

[unterhausen]

can newbies post links here? I know people hate it when they have to wait a couple of days before they can post links, but it makes spamming a lot more expensive.

[mstateglfr]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

Gaggi is a spammer. Interestingly, he (she? it?) only has three posts since May.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...60#post3181060

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...45#post3109545

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...23#post3094423

Subtle spamming. Spammed playing the long game?...that's a first. And shilling for multiple companies over that long period of inactivity?
Odd.

[Keith A]

Thanks guys. Gaggi is gone.

[Dude]

Originally Posted by mstateglfr

Subtle spamming. Spammed playing the long game?...that's a first. And shilling for multiple companies over that long period of inactivity?
Odd.

They probably get paid via affiliate links. find a new forum...search religion and promote the church....search for nutrition and promote whatever they were hawking. Across all the forums Gaggi is on, if he posts 100x in a day, that's 100 affiliate links sitting out there on more or less evergreen content.

At that rate, Gaggi could get a free cup of coffee every day.

[rice rocket]

Originally Posted by Dude

They probably get paid via affiliate links. find a new forum...search religion and promote the church....search for nutrition and promote whatever they were hawking. Across all the forums Gaggi is on, if he posts 100x in a day, that's 100 affiliate links sitting out there on more or less evergreen content.

At that rate, Gaggi could get a free cup of coffee every day.

Doesn't even need to be an affiliate link, it's because search algorithms rank a site's overall ranking based on how many other sites link to them. The more "clout" you create by generating links from other sites, the higher the search rankings go.

The link should be deleted altogether really, because the ranking algos work in reverse as well, when your site is flagged w/ a bunch of spam links.

[Keith A]

Originally Posted by rice rocket

Doesn't even need to be an affiliate link, it's because search algorithms rank a site's overall ranking based on how many other sites link to them. The more "clout" you create by generating links from other sites, the higher the search rankings go.

The link should be deleted altogether really, because the ranking algos work in reverse as well, when your site is flagged w/ a bunch of spam links.

Thanks for the info, I'll remove the links.

[fiamme red]

Lawssons is a spammer: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showp...6&postcount=16.

I only noticed it because he/she/it just bumped up an OT thread (soon to include a spam link as well) as a second post on the forum: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...72#post3215272.

[Keith A]

fiamme red -- Thanks for the info, this user is gone.

[fiamme red]

Spammer macmall has hit on a new tactic: insert the spam link into the quoted post.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...20#post3254020

[93KgBike]

Originally Posted by reuben

You have a 93 kg bike. So either you know nothing about bikes and are almost certainly a spammer, or you're the most awesome cyclist ever and we should all bow down before you.

I'll let the mods figure it out...

Spam handrolls are a post-ride treat, we love! But nope, I don't spam posts, just kids!

Well, bow down if you must, but it's a real bike, and I weigh as much as it does! You can kind of see it the the little decorative photo.

PS - This thread IS kind of dangerously old...

[AngryScientist]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

Spammer macmall has hit on a new tactic: insert the spam link into the quoted post.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...20#post3254020

Thanks again for pointing this out. User banned.

[Keith A]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

Spammer macmall has hit on a new tactic: insert the spam link into the quoted post.

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showt...20#post3254020

That is a new one. Thanks for letting us know.