I am permanently monitoring DB and other forums and try helping to fight spam. It not only is deeply annoying to have to read it, but it can harm both the SE ranking of Deeper BLue, and can potentially infect with Trojan viruses the less carefull visitors as well.
After just a very quick search for spam on DB now, with some new patterns I discovered, I found huge volumes of it here on DB, and am continuing to report them to the moderators. Usually they are then being removed quickly. Unfortunately, even though all messages and profile information of these spammers get removed, the "visitor messages" of these spammers, including all their links, remain visible. You can see an example here: DeeperBlue.com Forums - View Profile: anglyzly
The spam bots are clever enough not to post the spam onto the profile pages of regular memebrs (who would report it), but post them to accounts they create themselves. And since visitor messages are not visible anywhere among the new forum posts, and the concerned profiles are often dormant (hence not visited by moderators), there is very little chance a moderator finds the spam. The above example shows it: both angyzly and truyen-hentai are spam accounts. Truyen-hentai was already banned, but as you can see, his spam is still visible on the forum and can harm DB.
Hence my recommendation is to ban all hyperlinks in visitor messages (past and future) (at least at all non-supporters), and to make sure that all visitor messages at all banned members (past nad future ones) are being removed along with all forum posts as well!
After just a very quick search for spam on DB now, with some new patterns I discovered, I found huge volumes of it here on DB, and am continuing to report them to the moderators. Usually they are then being removed quickly. Unfortunately, even though all messages and profile information of these spammers get removed, the "visitor messages" of these spammers, including all their links, remain visible. You can see an example here: DeeperBlue.com Forums - View Profile: anglyzly
The spam bots are clever enough not to post the spam onto the profile pages of regular memebrs (who would report it), but post them to accounts they create themselves. And since visitor messages are not visible anywhere among the new forum posts, and the concerned profiles are often dormant (hence not visited by moderators), there is very little chance a moderator finds the spam. The above example shows it: both angyzly and truyen-hentai are spam accounts. Truyen-hentai was already banned, but as you can see, his spam is still visible on the forum and can harm DB.
Hence my recommendation is to ban all hyperlinks in visitor messages (past and future) (at least at all non-supporters), and to make sure that all visitor messages at all banned members (past nad future ones) are being removed along with all forum posts as well!
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