Regarding the Spam...
LAWoman72
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Just curious.
How come the Spam posts are always a whole bunch of random nonsense phrases thrown together? It doesn't seem like it could be for keywords as the phrases are absolutely random and unrelated to the product being peddled.
For instance, I just saw one with the phrase "anxious mice".
Anybody know...?
How come the Spam posts are always a whole bunch of random nonsense phrases thrown together? It doesn't seem like it could be for keywords as the phrases are absolutely random and unrelated to the product being peddled.
For instance, I just saw one with the phrase "anxious mice".
Anybody know...?
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Probably so they'll come up in searches for those common words.
God I love being that 5th flagger.0 -
Why MFP doesn't have a better security team keeping this junk from even creating new users and spamming makes little sense to me.0
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Probably so they'll come up in searches for those common words.
God I love being that 5th flagger.
Okay, but I mean, I can't remember the last time I Googled "anxious mice." KWIM?
I like being the fifth flagger too.
God I need a hobby.
ETA: *flagger...darned autocorrect!
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Probably so they'll come up in searches for those common words.
God I love being that 5th flagger.
Okay, but I mean, I can't remember the last time I Googled "anxious mice." KWIM?
Hmm...I must be the only one....0 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Probably so they'll come up in searches for those common words.
God I love being that 5th flagger.
Okay, but I mean, I can't remember the last time I Googled "anxious mice." KWIM?
Hmm...I must be the only one....
Well, you know, you're doing a noble job, Alyssa. Actually, I'm kind of ashamed now that I've been turning a blind and uncaring eye on the growing problem of mouse anxiety.
Won't somebody please think of the mice...?
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Probably so they'll come up in searches for those common words.
God I love being that 5th flagger.
Okay, but I mean, I can't remember the last time I Googled "anxious mice." KWIM?
Hmm...I must be the only one....
Well, you know, you're doing a noble job, Alyssa. Actually, I'm kind of ashamed now that I've been turning a blind and uncaring eye on the growing problem of mouse anxiety.
Won't somebody please think of the mice...?
Well, I just Googled anxious mice. Apparently there's a social anxiety mouse meme. I don't think it's very popular...
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rainbowbow wrote: »Why MFP doesn't have a better security team keeping this junk from even creating new users and spamming makes little sense to me.
It IS strange.
Oh well, at least it's entertaining. I mean why open a thread and read "Six ponds down and fatigued" when I can open a thread and read "But whenever bearing is place on the issue of how toast orange within my shame, of Heaven's missile"?
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rainbowbow wrote: »Why MFP doesn't have a better security team keeping this junk from even creating new users and spamming makes little sense to me.
It IS strange.
Oh well, at least it's entertaining. I mean why open a thread and read "Six ponds down and fatigued" when I can open a thread and read "But whenever bearing is place on the issue of how toast orange within my shame, of Heaven's missile"?
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Just curious.
How come the Spam posts are always a whole bunch of random nonsense phrases thrown together? It doesn't seem like it could be for keywords as the phrases are absolutely random and unrelated to the product being peddled.
For instance, I just saw one with the phrase "anxious mice".
Anybody know...?
Because everyone knows you search "anxious mice" when looking to lose weight.
On a more serious note: pretty sure they are just programs that throw random words together.0 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Probably so they'll come up in searches for those common words.
God I love being that 5th flagger.
Okay, but I mean, I can't remember the last time I Googled "anxious mice." KWIM?
I like being the fifth flagger too. God I need a hobby.
ETA: *flagger...darned autocorrect!
Dare I ask what that autocorrected to? I can only really think of one word my autocorrect changes flag to and it is because I type it more often.0 -
Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Probably so they'll come up in searches for those common words.
God I love being that 5th flagger.
Okay, but I mean, I can't remember the last time I Googled "anxious mice." KWIM?
I like being the fifth flagger too. God I need a hobby.
ETA: *flagger...darned autocorrect!
Dare I ask what that autocorrected to? I can only really think of one word my autocorrect changes flag to and it is because I type it more often.
Oh, nothing all that bad, LOL...it changed it to "flagged." Since I went back and edited it, now it all looks confusing. Sorry, been sick and not exactly firing on all cylinders tonight.
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Although a pen pal of mine did have a great deal of fun recently when I was trying to tell him I was originally from New Jersey...I was trying to type "I'm an NJ girl" and it auto corrected it to BJ...I was flustered trying to clarify and with the help of autocorrect I kept telling him, "No, I'm an BJ girl, an BJ girl!"
Ah, fun with a Kindle. No wonder he wanted to be my pen pal, as grammar really doesn't matter much in such an application.0 -
Hahaha! That's not nearly as bad as some of my autocorrects to coworkers or family. Yipes! Let's just say my one partner at work no longer asks about my social life at all after he got a hilarious autocorrect (my phone autocorrects to words most used).0
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flyingtanuki wrote: »Just curious.
How come the Spam posts are always a whole bunch of random nonsense phrases thrown together? It doesn't seem like it could be for keywords as the phrases are absolutely random and unrelated to the product being peddled.
For instance, I just saw one with the phrase "anxious mice".
Anybody know...?
A common automated spam filter program compares the number of "listed" words (e.g., fat, lose, diet, garcinia, etc.) with non-listed words, rejecting emails having too high an incidence of the listed words vs. non-listed words.
To defeat these types of filters, the spammers include a large enough number of random non-listed words to allow the message to pass by the filter program undetected.
Okay, thank you! My God but the lengths a sheister won't go to. ETA: or a sheister bot.
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Yeah but what is the point, does anybody actually read the through the nonsense? I had assumed it had been foreign text that didn't translate0
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Yeah but what is the point, does anybody actually read the through the nonsense? I had assumed it had been foreign text that didn't translate
I think some of the random combinations end up being pretty funny. or even poetic sometimes. i've saved a few, lol
"the upset in their figure is alone commendable" is my favourite title so far. and i edited one down to try to make a poem, once, called "slimwise ketone".0 -
flyingtanuki wrote: »Just curious.
How come the Spam posts are always a whole bunch of random nonsense phrases thrown together? It doesn't seem like it could be for keywords as the phrases are absolutely random and unrelated to the product being peddled.
For instance, I just saw one with the phrase "anxious mice".
Anybody know...?
A common automated spam filter program compares the number of "listed" words (e.g., fat, lose, diet, garcinia, etc.) with non-listed words, rejecting emails having too high an incidence of the listed words vs. non-listed words.
To defeat these types of filters, the spammers include a large enough number of random non-listed words to allow the message to pass by the filter program undetected.
the non-listed words don't seem entirely random; some of it sounds like chunks of text pulled from message boards (or that's what I thought it might be).0
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