Seeking Help Spamming: What's the Benefit?

[Endgame]

Every now and then, we see someone creates some absurd Spamming (?) thread. What's the benefit of these for them?

 

[Bapun]

It is kind of advertising. Simply to put a link on their profile page, posts, threads and build massive backlinks.

It may be effective on sites which get traffic but not actively maintained by staff. So spam stay there and they get traffic from those illegitimate ways.

Human design Robots (or call them Bots) to do these jobs or themselves do it to earn money too.

 

[Bapun]

By the way, most of the spammers DDF get are from India though they mention NY (short form of New York).

India and Pakistan are the most id*otic countries when it comes to human spamming. People do spamming as their part time job.

 

[Endgame]

It is kind of advertising. Simply to put a link on their profile page, posts, threads and build massive backlinks.

It may be effective on sites which get traffic but not actively maintained by staff. So spam stay there and they get traffic from those illegitimate ways.

Human design Robots (or call them Bots) to do these jobs or themselves do it to earn money too.

Bro, that brings the 2nd question. What if someone click on those links? Can they transmit some virus?

 

[iSK]

Purgeing Spammers is a great Fun I used to enjoy here in Mybb Before. But Thanks to Xenfro n its Spam Protection .. Now their is restrictions before creating a thread n more options available to stop spamming

 

[Bapun]

Bro, that brings the 2nd question. What if someone click on those links? Can they transmit some virus?

If they are posting links on thread title (which they often do since new members are restricted from posting links on their posts), it will open the thread, not the real link since links in thread titles are not parsed as real URLs.

Usually it is a virus or blog link or some Chinese scripts which we are unable to understand. Main motive behind it is drive trafic to their sites using those links so better not to click them.

Purgeing Spammers is a great Fun I used to enjoy here in Mybb Before. But Thanks to Xenfro n its Spam Protection .. Now their is restrictions before creating a thread n more options available to stop spamming

With XF, Usually spammers are auto detected during registration and blocked or in worse case (theirs, not ours ) set as moderator approval. So they can not bypass the spam protection thing.

If the worse thing happens and they pass all things and post thing, report the user id or their post and we will purge them as soon as any of us comes online.