What are spam questions trying to achieve?
I’m just honestly confused. For the past however many days they’ve been pretty much clockwork, between 10–11pm (my time). Last night I think they were a little early.
But anyway, they are basically nonsense to read (even if they weren’t, they’d still be pretty transparent), and many of the hyperlinks even have the word “spam” or “scam” as part of the address. . . Who is actually going to click on the link?
I’m not complaining about the spam, as much as trying to understand why people are bothering to make yet another spam account to post yet another spam question that will be removed shortly thereafter by our (marvelous and diligent) mods. What can they possibly hope to achieve?
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The spammers are employees, so they don’t care about any lasting effects on “their” company. They just want the links to be online long enough for them to show the boss. The posts don’t need to be meaningful as much as contain the right keywords.
The spam you see is probably more dependent on when there are no mods online. I just woke up, and the others are likely still asleep. Usually, the spam is evenly spread throughout the day.
The links containing, “spam” have me stumped, as well.
Thanks for the compliment(s)!
They’re trying to drive traffic to their website, which is most likely full of pay-per-view or pay-per-click advertising. They might or might not even have a legitimate product on there.
Doesn’t matter, though, to them, is worth it to try posting, just in case it stays up long enough to get them some clicks.
Quora is becoming big for black hat marketing.
How DARE you accuse Prince Nagaswani of being a spammer?!?! I met him here at Fluther, and we’ve developed a very special relationship. Just a few days ago, I sent all my savings to him, so that he can move here and join me. I’ll get the last laugh, and prove everyone wrong, when I become Princess Nagaswani.
Their goal is web search click bait. They don’t care if we regulars make them or not.
Okay, makes sense. I figured they had to be employees (who would link to specific bizarre/fake products for fun?) but I was thinking in terms of getting us to click the links, not in terms of posting a specific number of links across the internet, or in trying to wrangle people in from search engines. I still feel like the spammers won’t really get clicks on the actual links, but then, if that’s not what their quota is, they don’t have to worry about it!
Yeah, I think most jellies are asleep when it’s 10–11pm for me. Spam-vanquished-throughout-day explains the “clockwork” much better than spammers-just-know-when-people-sleep, haha
@longgone—of course! You guys are awesome :)
@DancingMind Yep. I’m convinced that jellies are too smart to click on suspicious links.
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