Whats with all the spam on WSO lately?
calling on @WallStreetOasis.com to do something about it
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Been noticing that too, it's super annoying. Maybe put like a five minute limit on creating new forum topics. That would slow them down enough to ban them before that can post two dozen new threads.
lol the richardgreen guy has over 1000 banana points just from creating spam threads * and he's only been a member for 6 hours
Update : 40+ pages are davidgreen and richardgreen spam posts.
yeah seeing it now, thanks for flagging it,
There are still thousands of them.
My theory is that they aren't doing anything about intentionally cause Patrick is a kingpin of a drug ring and he uses WSO as advertising
This kind of always happens on the weekends, you'll see it when you log on first thing on a Monday morning and the mods clean it up by by market open. I've never seen it to this extent but it should be an easy fix.
My question is the people who write these bots must actually make money on this right? What can their conversion possibly rate be (I'm guessing 0% on WSO)? Who is their target audience? Kind of interesting
their conversion rate's a bit higher, I was wondering if I was taking too many prozacs
Yeah it's going on for a month or two now, it is super annoying. Isn't there a way to slow them down a little? I actually like @"crackjack"'s idea. There needs to be a limit for threads..
hey guys, will think of adding in some additional restrictions for new users to help slow them down, yet again :-)
The best thing you guys can do is click the "report violation" link on them as soon as you see them. If 2 or more users flag them, then they are auto-blocked and all their shit is removed.
I will increase the # of bananas needed to avoid that filter or think of another block...they are now posting 100s in rapid fire to get over the threshold fast :-)
fuckers.
worried that would be abused :-) don't want people flagging just for points...
quick suggestion here, analystforum has a 24 hour approval period for all new users, makes you enter one of those random script generating things to prove you're a human, and then sends a confirmation email to you to make sure you're real. perhaps give that a whirl. I don't think 1 day is too much to ask for new users since people can still lurk, but it might slow down the bots.
new algos are on live...more strict for new users...and we're trying to add a throttle early next week as well.
Thank you! It's annoying to see pure spam (when you sort by most recent).
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