Topic: Canned posts (Read 1086 times)

Looks like you spoke to soon, he is now yobitz member. Not like we did not see this coming. Really only two campaigns spammers run to at first.
Suspect this issue will face more scrutiny this month due to the waves of garbage.

One place I have been noticing it horribly is in beginner forum - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0 .  Look at all the quick/way's to earn btc threads.  I cannot possibly count all the threads that use something like the folowing:

Trading
Faucets
Sig Campaign
Selling Goods
Learn a skill

There are many variations of it.  But it is crazy how many times something like above is mentioned.  Just go through these beginner earning threads and you will see it repeated... over and over. 

Lazyness/greed, but your posts are poor too. Just because you don't have a signature doesn't mean they're not spam.

Why people Spam the posts when they are paid so good from campaigns.

Thank you! (a) for handling the reports, and (b) for banning the accounts!

Yeah, saw/handled your reports. If I had to guess they look like they're related to the spammers in the op. Maybe farming more accounts seeing as their others are getting banned.

User #1, user #2 - 2 posters I spotted today, both posted today, prior to that they both last posted on March 9, and before that they both posted on February 17. Today's posts, and the posts from March 9, are variations on the "we all hope" theme; however, the posts from February seem "real".

Very likely the same user and a few of those have been banned before for just rehashing the same hollow stuff just reworded slightly differently.  An admin will need to look into it.

This has been happening for quite some time (maybe a year, or a bit more, I'd say), and admins/mods do a great job and are constantly on top of it. Some accounts went as far as copying from non-bot members and posting in the exact same thread... When you see something odd, just report, I do so quite often.

You can add a link to this thread in your report, that should help.

I've noticed this brainless posting style before, never thought it's so widespread though.

I realize that part,was hoping you guys would have some key words that you use that mods understand quicker for processing.
Imagine if you go on and on and just say spammer they will tend not to look into it. May be wrong but in my head they are going through reports constantly and imagine some of the reports are vengeful or trollish in nature and its hard to read what the deal is.
The percentage of correct reports does little to help me figure out if I am doing anything right.

Have reported 4 signature spammers to signature moderators and never get a reply back,so that seems to be fruitless.
Just lately I have started clicking to report spammers to mods of the forum but was not sure if they do anything about that or have the powers.
I am pretty naive when it comes to the day to day operations mods do here. Looking at the seclog it looks extensive.

there's a report to moderator button on the right corner (above signature) of every post. click on that to report a post. fill the comment box with the reason for your report if needed.

Think that people are farming like crazy and it does not matter if they lose their signature due to the amount of time in between a signature housecleaning and the time they sign up. Say it takes a month in between and its usually longer.

10 jr. member accounts on yobit = 20x.00007x10x7x4= 0.392 btc

But if you are copy and pasting with slight variations they could be doing this with way more accounts.
Once they are kicked from yobit on to the next signature and so on.

Just watching the yobit thread its a continual cycle of dumb questions,dumb questions being answered,person giving people crap for responding to create post count and repeat. If you glance through the signature threads you also see a lot of posters not even in the campaigns going from signature to signature responding to these dumb questions.

Requirements should be raised but I think there is little to deter some of these members from poor countries,as this is pretty decent money for them.

My math was 20 posts per day multiplied by payout multiplied by accounts used multiplied by days in week and weeks.
Think Yobit cleaned house and the very same day people where posting about good kicking spammers when they where spammers themselves.

Something fresh needs to be worked out.

How do you report them besides signature campaign manager,are you clicking report thread? If so what do you type?

Oh definitely - I'm sure I have too. It's the combination of the three phrases that raises my suspicions - I've no problem with people saying "that is good" as a general rule!


I shall report, then, and be damned!

Thank you both for your feedback - I don't like reporting posts for the sake of it, thanks for the second opinions before I summon the mods!

low value and/or spammy posts are not ok even if they're on-topic so report them if you think they're low-quality/spammy. though I can't guarantee that the mods will agree with you. I've reported multiple accounts for spamming low quality one-liners once and they kept on doing it (but it seems they've improved over time.).

I notice these all the time, and I'm sure I've used some canned phrases myself.  I've sometimes attributed this to different language proficiencies--posters who do this tend to seem like non-native English speakers.  Or yeah, I guess they could be bots.

It's possible the off-topic ones are gone now - I reported a couple yesterday, and the remaining ones did seem to be at least tangentially on-topic. It's these latter ones I guess I'm curious about - can they be reported, or does being on-topic make them OK, even if they're low-value and spammy? I feel like I'm making subjective judgements, though - I wouldn't trust me as arbiter of all things useful, so I need a second opinion before I go mad with the "report" button!

very interesting... I haven't noticed this but you're right.










guess what? they all have bitmixer signature and post two-liners (and very hopeful).
so far I haven't found any completely off-topic "hope" post other than the one by namelesscoin though.

Has anyone else noticed an uptick in "canned posts", low-value/spammy posts that appear to be auto-generated using recurring phrases ("we all hope", "that is good", "that is the problem")?

Examples: see this Google search (about 85 results).


This seems to be a fairly recent phenomenon, at least I've only recently noticed it. In many cases the posts are completely off-topic, and I've been reporting them. When they're on-topic (kind of...) I'm less certain what to do - can these safely be reported? They add feck all to the conversations, and - at least to me - seem to be nothing more than sig spam.