Advice for Spiceworks Spammers

PatrickFarrell · 2015-07-04T07:14:53.000Z

At east post your stuff in English so those of us dealing with late night IT problems have something to read.

Why they bother posting spam here, in what I think was Chinese, is beyond me.

v-s · 2015-07-04T08:20:19.000Z

You can always use http://translate.google.com

PatrickFarrell · 2015-07-04T08:21:10.000Z

I’m not going to do their work for them.

PatrickFarrell · 2015-07-04T08:22:00.000Z

For those not knowing what this was about, an ~2 hours ago, a bunch of the same Chinese spam hit in several discussion and community groups.

steenjensen5992 · 2015-07-04T08:22:18.000Z

I guess they were trying to clutter up the community. Did you try Google translate? I ignored their posts but I wondered whether they’d placed a link inside for the unwary.

PatrickFarrell · 2015-07-04T08:28:05.000Z

I reported all of the ones I saw and the mods nuked them within minutes of the reports. I didn’t bother translating.

steenjensen5992 · 2015-07-04T08:31:55.000Z

I should know this, how did you report it?

PatrickFarrell · 2015-07-04T08:34:00.000Z

Open the thread, top right there’s a drop down arrow next to share. Select report and check the reason. I just click other and type Spam. It’s so obviously spam as to not need any detail in these cases.

v-s · 2015-07-04T08:48:52.000Z

We played a mini-game of nuke the spammers. Report anything you see. It helps the entire community.

michaelmtallman · 2015-07-04T09:00:15.000Z

Patrick, same here, I hit them also, probably at the same time you were doing it. I also sent a msg to the community folks to see about adding points to be awarded for those who report a post that doesn’t meet the community guidelines and is deleted by the community manager(s).

v-s · 2015-07-04T09:08:37.000Z

Points? Next thing you’ll want a badge too! xD

Huw3481 · 2015-07-04T09:46:24.000Z

Oh come on!

Why would you not want a fake certificate made in China for a USA University? Think of the career progression!

v-s · 2015-07-04T10:09:25.000Z

They also include a T-Shirt for an extra $100

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Huw3481 · 2015-07-04T11:48:10.000Z

MichaelMTallman:

Patrick, same here, I hit them also, probably at the same time you were doing it. I also sent a msg to the community folks to see about adding points to be awarded for those who report a post that doesn’t meet the community guidelines and is deleted by the community manager(s).

A vast number of posts are deleted by the moderators. We can award you 10% of SFA.

apsutcliffe · 2015-07-04T12:08:16.000Z

Advice for Spiceworks Spammers

FOAD!

bloodhoundgang · 2015-07-04T13:51:59.000Z

Bottman:

Advice for Spiceworks Spammers

FOAD!

New term for me. I’m guessing the last two letters are “and die”? If so I can guess the first two. Else please explain.

luigi · 2015-07-04T16:41:46.000Z

I dunno, everytime I use google translate on chinese/japanese it comes out like this:

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v-s · 2015-07-04T22:21:21.000Z

I think we could add to this thread for years to come:

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Huw3481 · 2015-07-05T07:16:24.000Z

PatrickFarrell:

For those not knowing what this was about, an ~2 hours ago, a bunch of the same Chinese spam hit in several discussion and community groups.

At least it’s nice to be getting a load of Chinese “Fake Diploma” spam to train the new mods on.

Us old timers were fed up with all the Korean “Bamwar/Casino” spam.

v-s · 2015-07-05T07:20:42.000Z

New Mods are fed up with them too =D

New spam is a nice change of pace, although I had to turn off my phone app notification after last night for Community Messages when a certain someone took care of a certain something. Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding…