Mr Adagio Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 Attached is a screen shot of yesterday’s emails and have had a further 10off this morning. Also getting normal posts coming through. Any ideas as to what is going on please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzard Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 Looks like a touch of the China syndrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 We've been dealing with these as fast as we can: 10 such topics were started yesterday morning, 11 more this morning. Magpie Patrick and myself have been hoovering them up. I am unable to enlighten you as to their content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Adagio Posted September 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 Thanks. Glad to hear you are on the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 Bloody Chinese, they make copies of everything these days, even CWDF! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty69 Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, cuthound said: Bloody Chinese, they make copies of everything these days, even CWDF! ? I've just picked up my fake degree from Beijing University. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 3 minutes ago, rusty69 said: I've just picked up my fake degree from Beijing That's a bit obtuse isn't it? ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty40s Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 Always picking on newbys...do the Chinese not have canals, are they not allowed to discuss pumpah versus casse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 1 minute ago, matty40s said: Always picking on newbys...do the Chinese not have canals, are they not allowed to discuss pumpah versus casse. I think I read about one called the Gland Union, but I may be mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hurley Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 That was the Reeds and Riverpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardang Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 I am a member of an excellent shipping forum called "Ships Nostalgia", and we had this problem for months. It was eventually discovered to be a Korean site which was advertising casinos (we had a member who could read the content). It took a lot of effort on behalf of the administrators to get rid of these postings and for a while the site was unusable because we would have two or three pages of it every day. . We still, very occasionally, get one or two such postings but they are cleared out very quickly. Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 42 minutes ago, howardang said: I am a member of an excellent shipping forum called "Ships Nostalgia", and we had this problem for months. It was eventually discovered to be a Korean site which was advertising casinos (we had a member who could read the content). It took a lot of effort on behalf of the administrators to get rid of these postings and for a while the site was unusable because we would have two or three pages of it every day. . We still, very occasionally, get one or two such postings but they are cleared out very quickly. Howard Thanks, Howard! We have lots to look forward, then. But, as I doubt that more than 1 person in 1,000 on here understands Korean (or whatever language it is), what benefit do thy hope to derive from these posts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardang Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 55 minutes ago, Athy said: Thanks, Howard! We have lots to look forward, then. But, as I doubt that more than 1 person in 1,000 on here understands Korean (or whatever language it is), what benefit do thy hope to derive from these posts? 55 minutes ago, Athy said: Thanks, Howard! We have lots to look forward, then. But, as I doubt that more than 1 person in 1,000 on here understands Korean (or whatever language it is), what benefit do thy hope to derive from these posts? Not being a computer geek I can’t answer other than to say that the experts on the other sites said it was computer generated so was posted automatically so not touched by human hands! Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 They gain on Google ranking due to having links from other domains to their site. Except its spam, so its detected and scored as such..... IIRC the Invision forum system included a subscription to a central database which sensed and auto-blocked spam such as this, obviously it isn't perfect. It needs to be dealt with in the proper way (by marking as spam), this way it updates the central database of the details and if that receives reports from a number of unrelated forums it will be auto-blocked as spam. If there's a pattern, its also possible to block the IP address, or a range of dodgy addresses, although they are getting good at finding and using batches of these so its not really that effective any more (lightens the server load considerably in the short term though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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