Spammed

Bad news: Spam has been on a serious uptick around here lately.

So the team tweaked some settings and the filter.

Good news: Spam is way down.

More bad news: Some non-spamming, definitely member types are getting clocked by the spam fighting SiteBot.

It's by no means an epidemic, but it's happened so I want to get this message out there to the good, non-spamming folks of N4G. :)

If this happens to you, or you suspect it happened to you, contact us via ticket: http://n4g.com/tickets/add/...

Please note that even if you are unable to login, you can still submit a ticket as a Guest. Just be sure to include your username to make it easy for Mods to look up.

[Donnieboi]

Good news

[GreenRanger]

If that SiteBot attacks me; I'm reachin' for my flute...

[Donnieboi]

Lol what??

Edit:

@DedicatedToGamers and GreenRanger:

Thanks I get it now :D

[dedicatedtogamers]

Summon his Zord, bro

http://youtu.be/DgJZ_3RmwRo...

[SilentNegotiator]

The fact that non-spammers are being hit already worries me more than the spam itself.

[CourierSix]

Lol nice.

[Blacktric]

Great news. It's good to know that the admins and mods actively fighting against this crap.

[HammadTheBeast]

Spam is actually a good sign, it takes a good site to get spammed, it means you're doing something right.

Glass half full and all that.

[ravinash]

Sorry, crap sites do get spammed to.
their not that picky.

[zeal0us]

I mention the word Google and the site thinks I'm trying to submit spam. I glad its fixed now.

The person behind the spambots will just modify their comments so that the system doesn't detect them. I already seen it happen on other sites. For instance they might use symbols instead of letters, space out the website name or instead saying .com they might say dotcom.

[SilentNegotiator]

Your loss. Now I won't tell you how I made all that money online.

/s

[dedicatedtogamers]

That's a good point, Stephanie. I didn't believe it until you showed me, but my Aunt's co-worker makes $89/hr from his computer at home!

Now excuse me while I go post six blogs in a row about Venezuelan Cosmetics.

[fsfsxii]

Next gen spam bots:
They have avatars

[SilentNegotiator]

They're learning. WE'RE DOOOOOOOOOMED!

[M-M]

"They're filtering the site so that we can't post anymore. I think I may have found the solution to reduce the risk of getting banned!"

*Adds avatar*

[zerocrossing]

Thanks! I'm glad to hear something has been done to put an end to all that spam.

[mydyingparadiselost]

Thank you!