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Ooft, getting absolutely flooded today. Normally they wait until we're all asleep.

I take it this is all to do with getting search results on Google rather than any gain from the specific forum posts, considering they're usually deleted pretty sharpish. I Googled the voodoo priestess we were being spammed with a few nights ago and saw there were hundreds of other random forums that had received the same treatment; when I Googled her again the next day, P&B came up in the search results despite everything being purged by then.

Is the idea to make something/someone seem more legitimate via Google results?

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5 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Ooft, getting absolutely flooded today. Normally they wait until we're all asleep.

I take it this is all to do with getting search results on Google rather than any gain from the specific forum posts, considering they're usually deleted pretty sharpish. I Googled the voodoo priestess we were being spammed with a few nights ago and saw there were hundreds of other random forums that had received the same treatment; when I Googled her again the next day, P&B came up in the search results despite everything being purged by then.

Is the idea to make something/someone seem more legitimate via Google results?

Goodness, the whole front page is full of it, haven't ventured on to page 2 yet.

ETA: Page 2 is nearly as bad! :o

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Yeah they have stepped it up last few days. I've switched manual account vetting back on so I'll hopefully catch the majority of them from here on but there might be a few sleeper cells in the system so please do keep reporting if you see dodgy content and we will squash them.

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24 minutes ago, Div said:

Yeah they have stepped it up last few days. I've switched manual account vetting back on so I'll hopefully catch the majority of them from here on but there might be a few sleeper cells in the system so please do keep reporting if you see dodgy content and we will squash them.

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1 hour ago, Div said:

Yeah they have stepped it up last few days. I've switched manual account vetting back on so I'll hopefully catch the majority of them from here on but there might be a few sleeper cells in the system so please do keep reporting if you see dodgy content and we will squash them.

I hadn't finished reading them.

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17 hours ago, Div said:

I've now automatically banned new registrations from China, South Africa, India, Russia and Taiwan.

So if you're a Falkirk fan in New Delhi, you're not coming in.

Just wait until those pesky bots work out how to use a VPN...

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On 29/11/2023 at 11:35, Div said:

I've now automatically banned new registrations from China, South Africa, India, Russia and Taiwan.

So if you're a Falkirk fan in New Delhi, you're not coming in.

Better add Uganda to the list.. :)

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