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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 2875468" data-attributes="member: 87">That's not the reason.&nbsp; This type of spam is known as comment spam.&nbsp; The primary motive of the spammer is to get a link reference to be followed from here to their site so that Google is tricked into ranking their pages very high.&nbsp; Unfortunately for them all the links created by the URL tag at ENWorld have the rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; protocol, meaning the google spider knows to NOT follow the link - hence they are wasting their time. However since they've now defeated the human verify system they can program a bot to make the posts ad naseum until their banned.You can see the spammer's motives in their own words <a href="http://www.nutkinland.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1256" target="_blank">here (warning - very crude language)</a>These bastards took away the USENET and Spammed it beyond usability in the late 90's. They're gonna try to do it again to forum software - but this time we have an edge. We control the medium of transfer.&nbsp; I can and I will write the software necessary to thwart these attacks using a combination of blacklists and Bayesian filtering and other techniques.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Morris, post: 2875468, member: 87"] That's not the reason. This type of spam is known as comment spam. The primary motive of the spammer is to get a link reference to be followed from here to their site so that Google is tricked into ranking their pages very high. Unfortunately for them all the links created by the URL tag at ENWorld have the rel="nofollow" protocol, meaning the google spider knows to NOT follow the link - hence they are wasting their time. However since they've now defeated the human verify system they can program a bot to make the posts ad naseum until their banned. You can see the spammer's motives in their own words [url=http://www.nutkinland.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1256]here (warning - very crude language)[/url] These bastards took away the USENET and Spammed it beyond usability in the late 90's. They're gonna try to do it again to forum software - but this time we have an edge. We control the medium of transfer. I can and I will write the software necessary to thwart these attacks using a combination of blacklists and Bayesian filtering and other techniques. [/QUOTE]

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