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Spammer Notification Thread (2008-2011)

Doctor J · 2008-04-27 14:24:24

Please feel free to post any users you consider spamming boards.ie in this thread. Either post the post url/address or the users url/address from their profile. A link would be preferable. An Admin or Smod will come along and take a look at the spam and take action accordingly. Find a spammer and win some thanks from a…

27-04-2008 02:24PM

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Please feel free to post any users you consider spamming boards.ie in this thread. Either post the post url/address or the users url/address from their profile. A link would be preferable. An Admin or Smod will come along and take a look at the spam and take action accordingly.

Find a spammer and win some thanks from a SMod if you're lucky
/Gordon

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#2 27-04-2008 02:28PM

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Nuked his posts and banned him from the music category.

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#3 27-04-2008 02:28PM

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He's busy too!

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#4 27-04-2008 02:33PM

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not any more he isnt.

DeV.

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#5 27-04-2008 02:34PM

Sherifu

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Lulz

Working on a Sunday is wrong.

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#6 27-04-2008 11:55PM

Sherifu

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Another spammer

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=134274

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#7 28-04-2008 01:03AM

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Sherifu wrote: »

Another spammer

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=134274

I'm not defending spam but is he actually breaking any rules? In the Your Bands Music thread Giblet said "post links to your music here. I wanna hear some music". They're playing in Cork so the Cork City forum is valid. The Pimp Your Band forum is obviously the right area. The Gigs and Events posts are talking about the gigs and mentioning the next ones as is the post in the Upcoming Gigs and Events in the Experimental Music forum. And all his posts are over the course of a month so it's not just regging and spamming every forum.

NB - I didn't see the original spammers posts before they were deleted - this is just about Heliopause.

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#8 28-04-2008 01:08AM

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Their only contribution to this site is to pimp their band/albums/gigs repeatedly. I'd call that spam.

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#9 28-04-2008 01:11AM

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Macros42 wrote: »

I'm not defending spam but is he actually breaking any rules? In the Your Bands Music thread Giblet said "post links to your music here. I wanna hear some music". They're playing in Cork so the Cork City forum is valid. The Pimp Your Band forum is obviously the right area. The Gigs and Events posts are talking about the gigs and mentioning the next ones as is the post in the Upcoming Gigs and Events in the Experimental Music forum. And all his posts are over the course of a month so it's not just regging and spamming every forum.

NB - I didn't see the original spammers posts before they were deleted - this is just about Heliopause.

Advertising by creating multiple identical threads...hmmm that reminds me of the definition of something.

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#10 28-04-2008 01:51AM

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I apologise for posting my flier multiple times. Its very hard to catch peoples attention though! There are so many different forums for one thing. MUSIC. It seems a bit silly. So I put the flier in places where i thought people would be interested in it. I did not put it in the Automobiles section or anywhere like that so I did not actually spam!

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#11 28-04-2008 07:16AM

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It's spam. I've left some of the links in some of the music fora as they may be ok for this type of advertising - Pimp My Band for example.

heliopause wrote: »

I apologise for posting my flier multiple times. Its very hard to catch peoples attention though!

That's one of the arguments posed by spammers when they justify spamming millions and millions of spam emails every day. The other argument is that they are only providing something to the public that they will most likely want.

There are so many different forums for one thing. MUSIC. It seems a bit silly. So I put the flier in places where i thought people would be interested in it. I did not put it in the Automobiles section or anywhere like that so I did not actually spam!

You put it in Cork, Experimental Music, Alternative & Indie, Music, Gigs & Events, Bands and Musicians and Pimp your Band. Imagine if every band that had a gig on posted their gig in all of those forums - do you think that they would be bogged down?

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#12 28-04-2008 01:08PM

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It's spam. I've left some of the links in some of the music fora as they may be ok for this type of advertising - Pimp My Band for example.

Ok, I am not trying to spam, I was just trying to let the people who have seen the band before know that they can pick up the EP if they want to. And as regards the experimental forum, the oldest post on the 1st page is from 1/4/'08. What harm would it have done??? The other forums are fairly busy and probably would not be as interested so I should not have posted there.

You put it in Cork, Experimental Music, Alternative & Indie, Music, Gigs & Events, Bands and Musicians and Pimp your Band. Imagine if every band that had a gig on posted their gig in all of those forums - do you think that they would be bogged down?

What might be a good idea here would be an event guide for the site.

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#13 01-05-2008 02:12PM

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#14 01-05-2008 02:38PM

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Posted deleted - one day ban and pm asking them to refrain from cross posting. Clearly did not read the welcome mail

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#15 09-05-2008 06:35PM

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#16 09-05-2008 06:56PM

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#17 10-05-2008 07:00AM

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#18 13-05-2008 09:02AM

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#19 13-05-2008 04:23PM

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#20 13-05-2008 07:05PM

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#21 13-05-2008 07:13PM

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Sherifu wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=158047 (mantime)

does he ever go away... this the 14th account now afaik?

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#22 13-05-2008 10:39PM

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nevf wrote: »

does he ever go away... this the 14th account now afaik?

Make that 15th:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=158092

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#23 15-06-2008 08:53AM

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#24 23-06-2008 06:40PM

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#25 26-06-2008 09:00AM

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#26 28-06-2008 06:53PM

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#27 28-06-2008 06:57PM

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#28 28-06-2008 07:04PM

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NOW i understand what spamming is.

Sort of like those annoying gimps who hand out flyers in the street,

Only on d'internet.

Right?

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#29 28-06-2008 07:19PM

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Indeed. Thanks Sheriff. Users banned and PMd respectively.

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#30 28-06-2008 07:20PM

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No bother, everyone hates spammers.

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#31 29-06-2008 10:12PM

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#32 29-06-2008 10:29PM

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Sherifu wrote: »

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What kinda tool thinks that's a good idea.

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#33 01-07-2008 08:48AM

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=166690 gold spam

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#34 01-07-2008 09:00AM

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=166694 Festival spam

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#35 01-07-2008 09:28AM

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Handbag spam

Edit: According to public profile it looks like he/she is PMing users now.

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#36 01-07-2008 09:33AM

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Probably be replying to me.

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#37 01-07-2008 09:35AM

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=165927 Dublin's Greatest People spam

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#38 01-07-2008 10:55PM

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So sherifu have you just turned this into your own personal Spam-hating sticky fest? .... thread?

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#39 03-07-2008 06:39AM

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#40 03-07-2008 09:24AM

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Whatever about anything else, this Jim Walsh chap had better watch his back...

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#41 05-07-2008 05:44PM

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#42 26-07-2008 08:15PM

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#43 26-07-2008 09:17PM

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#44 28-07-2008 08:40AM

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http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=171452 Pimping background checks.

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#45 03-08-2008 01:29PM

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#46 12-08-2008 03:29PM

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#47 12-08-2008 03:40PM

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SteveC wrote: »

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Just came here to do that

In Humour atm dublin before that

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#48 12-08-2008 03:41PM

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Taken care of, thanks.

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#49 14-08-2008 12:15AM

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#50 14-08-2008 12:39AM

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Mr Crystal wrote: »

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Not a very bright one either spamming in TCN

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#51 18-08-2008 01:59PM

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sends his About Me link to my sig-linked blog

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