Another message board I'm on was recently inundated with spam from China. I tried all sorts of stuff to get them to go away (sharing footage of Tank Man,mentioning the Uyghurs, posting clips from that South Park episode from a few years ago, etc.) to no avail. I found a video on YouTube on the topic (this is apparently a problem all over the place), and somebody in the comments recommended posting this:
Here's that picture of Xi Jin Ping you asked me to send you earlier.
这是你之前让我发给你的习近平的照片。
I just started replying to all of the spam threads, and they stopped immediately. It's been almost two weeks since then!
If you're having similar issues, feel free to copy and paste it verbatim. Let me know how it goes!
Reply to spam isn’t the best idea. Spam is usually done by bots, so posts are automated. There usually isn’t someone there eager to read your reply.
You should also not engage with them because it can made the spam worse. The program will notice that you will engage with a certain type of message and just send more after you.
The best thing to do is to report spam. Also deleting it so others don’t engage with it.
Reply to spam isn’t the best idea. Spam is usually done by bots, so posts are automated. There usually isn’t someone there eager to read your reply.
You should also not engage with them because it can made the spam worse. The program will notice that you will engage with a certain type of message and just send more after you.
The best thing to do is to report spam. Also deleting it so others don’t engage with it.
I like how you say "usually" because there are indeed human beings out there that are actually willing to stoop so low as to spam everywhere. And there will be human beings that stoop lower than even that.
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Funnily enough, I had this problem too. DownDetector keeps letting these Telegram spammers past Disqus' system, while other comments get falsely "detected as spam" for most people. Well, it's more or less Disqus' problem, but you see what I mean. It's always "I have issue logging in to my social media account, so I called Levinpolka on..... TelGrimace and they fix issue right away" comments. And people aren't even smart enough that the accounts are scams. Some people are smart enough to realize that these spam scammers took their money away. I for one did stop these spam accounts from commenting long enough. There was a time last year when the spammer got so out of control, you can even block them, as some of those accounts are guest accounts rather than regular accounts. And even though Disqus' system got way smarter to crackdown comments, especially spam comments, I barely used DownDetector these days since there isn't anything to report and/or block. Even comment counts are getting a little lower overtime as the system gets much smarter. Here's more examples of DownDetector comments through this starter pack I did. https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/17v51lk/disqus_on_downdetector_starter_pack/
Even YouTube has the UTTP issue and more of these annoying spam comments. Even newer ones are racist at best with them saying the N word. And YouTube keeps deleting comments that can break the rules, but these offending comments are still up for some reason.
And don't get me started on 4chan, since there's too many to count. Especially that one guy who thinks that Seth McFarlane has a trust fund band called "Baskin Roberts". That guy spams the /TV/ page all the time and I even got into a fight with him and a Barney spammer who always shows up when a user posts My Little Pony images and stuff outside of /MLP/. That has to be the most madness I've ever done. But after all the excitement from replying to posts, I got banned from replying to posts for 2 and a half days. I think you might've actually saw that one before but didn't know that it was me.
The best thing to do is to report spam. Also deleting it so others don’t engage with it.
The messageboard in question is abandoned, so reporting it wouldn't do anything. The only reason I even knew it was going on was that I got a bunch of emails telling me that people were posting there again. I could have just unsubscribed from the updates, but I had some good times on there when it was active, and hated seeing it become a dumping ground for their bullshit.
Whether or not it was a good idea, all I know is, it worked. Bots or actual people, the implication that they were comparing their dictator to Pooh was enough to get them to piss off.
The best thing to do is to report spam. Also deleting it so others don’t engage with it.
The messageboard in question is abandoned, so reporting it wouldn't do anything. The only reason I even knew it was going on was that I got a bunch of emails telling me that people were posting there again. I could have just unsubscribed from the updates, but I had some good times on there when it was active, and hated seeing it become a dumping ground for their bullshit.
Whether or not it was a good idea, all I know is, it worked. Bots or actual people, the implication that they were comparing their dictator to Pooh was enough to get them to piss off.
You know what they say? Sometimes you'll have to pick the LEAST sucky option because every option sucks.
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I'm wondering if they were "picking up" in response to what day it happened to be yesterday. Or the coming American election. Or both.
There are pretty funny Reddit spam posts that you can give in response (basically either a "warning message" from XiJinPing about your "social credit points" or the John Xina speech in Pinyin). I do think that "tankies" are definitely active on multiple platforms to influence vulnerable individuals. I feel like "tankies" can take advantage of those people who overly worship this country (hyper nationalism) AND those people who overly despise it.
But yeah. Russia, China, Iran, etc. are all known for their infiltration of social media sites. No surprises here.
I'm wondering if they were "picking up" in response to what day it happened to be yesterday. Or the coming American election. Or both.
There are pretty funny Reddit spam posts that you can give in response (basically either a "warning message" from XiJinPing about your "social credit points" or the John Xina speech in Pinyin). I do think that "tankies" are definitely active on multiple platforms to influence vulnerable individuals. I feel like "tankies" can take advantage of those people who overly worship this country (hyper nationalism) AND those people who overly despise it.
But yeah. Russia, China, Iran, etc. are all known for their infiltration of social media sites. No surprises here.
Not surprised here. Heck, I assume Finland would also have their fair share of them since Finland apparently adopted the internet pretty early on. I mean, for Pete's sake, Nokia is fromFinland(and NOT Japan, contrary to their name sounding like a Japanese name).
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I'm wondering if they were "picking up" in response to what day it happened to be yesterday. Or the coming American election. Or both.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but they stopped posting over two weeks ago.
Tiananmen Square massacre was June 4th. There are people who don't believe it happened, or it was some type of psyop, or there's no actual proof of it, or that it was justified for whatever reason. But even now in the age of conspiracy, highly doubt that's the viewpoint of the vast majority of Americans.
With the election coming up, I do believe Russian/Chinese spam posts could pick up again. Anything to make people doubt America, or democracy is a "win" in their book.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but they stopped posting over two weeks ago.
Tiananmen Square massacre was June 4th. There are people who don't believe it happened, or it was some type of psyop, or there's no actual proof of it, or that it was justified for whatever reason. But even now in the age of conspiracy, highly doubt that's the viewpoint of the vast majority of Americans.
With the election coming up, I do believe Russian/Chinese spam posts could pick up again. Anything to make people doubt America, or democracy is a "win" in their book.
If such politically charged spam posts from Russia/China show up, I'm probably going to link them this.
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