Where do posts like this come from?
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Copy-paste I guess. There may be clones of this question somewhere else. The author only need to write once (with their excellent knowledge of English), then copy-paste,
Or maybe they machine translate everything from the site which may not be in English (I don’t know and I don’t need to know since I have to click the link).
Also I think you need to remove the link since your link will immortalize the spam.
Folks in Asia get a list of topics and things to spam. Since Fluther uses the most convoluted way to ask questions these are done by humans. If you use something like Wordpress or Vanilla the spam is much worse since that is easily programmable.
I would imagine profile spam is so much worse since it is harder to detect.
Some asian wage slave using google translate, probably.
They always show up in the wee hours (my time). Sometimes there’ll be a gang of them together. I assume the effort is made with the hope that the mods are sleeping long enough for the dribble to draw some attention. Every once in a while, there will be a post skilfully lacking the blatant signs of gibberish. It’s rare, but the lack of fluther points on the part of the would be jelly is an always dependable clue at 3 in the morning.
They’re people trying to advertise on a very tight or no budget at all.
It’s pretty counter productive as SPAM like this will get a website flagged by Google…
@ragingloli The Chinese government uses prisoners to farm MMORPGs and post spam to make money for the State. They have a quota and if they don’t reach it, they are beaten. It’s disturbing to realize that deleting someone’s spam here might be earning some poor bastard a beating in a Chinese prison.
@SmashTheState Now that I think about it… There was a spammer who spamed 164 times here, all in Chinese. Don’t tell me there was a horror story behind all those links!
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