PriceAngels spam problem

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Hello,

lately we've had shitloads of bots (well not actually bots, they're just chinese people hired to spam boards. I know: i've seen it with my own eyes)
they all sneakily advertised Price Angels dot com by posting links and asking questions that seemed legitimate.
Their purpose is to get as many links as possible posted on various websites so that search engines can improve their page rank and they get more visibility on Google and others.

Latest example:
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I looked up that user (chinese IP address btw) and saw the topics and post that he made-
100% are posts containing links and/or references to priceangels.
That's not the first time we ban such spammers, and most of the times its advertising the same website.
That annoying website is using morally inacceptable techniques to advertise its products.

As a result we've had to establish a banword filter. Every time someone uses that word, it'll be replaced by Shoptemp.
If you want to establish legitimate discussions about that website, feel free to use the site name "Price angels" without linking to it.

Thanks for your understanding!
Costello
 

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Testing word filter...

shoptemp

And, I noticed some awesome things in the pic. Like the spambot option and the topic section is the Trash Can which is probably in the Staff Only forum.
 

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this is made so that if they try to advertise their site again, it'll backfire and they'll advertise the gbatemp shop instead
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thus decreasing their own visibility to the expense of shoptemp's
hopefully this should be effective enough ...
 

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^ W...why?
Why does it still work? xD
shoptemp.
(if this doesn't work, we're still advertising them here
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Edit: Works
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But... ehh, why doesn't advice fox's test work? :/
 

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Uh, isn't this a wordfilter that could backfire? Testing anyway.

shoptemp really sucks, they spam boards.
 

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Costello said:
Advice Fox said:
Costello said:
try again, should be better now...
let me give it another shot
pr­ic­e­a­ng­els
weird, do you use some kind of trick ? or have a special account?
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Trick will become apparent when you paste it into notepad, the old zero-width characters between letters deal
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thanks bluestar, i didnt see the trick until i copied it into the notepad window...

Advice Fox said:
Costello said:
try again, should be better now...
let me give it another shot
pr­ic­e­a­ng­els
(and no, I'm not trying to be a smartass, it's possible spammers will do whatever i'm doing)

those kinds of chinese spammers are usually kinda brainless, and besides the point is they wont be able to create links which is important to improve their search engine rank. at least that's that.
 

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BlueStar said:
Uh, isn't this a wordfilter that could backfire? Testing anyway.

shoptemp really sucks, they spam boards.
How dare you say that about ShopTemp!
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Don't suppose the word filter could be ShopTemp rather than shoptemp...?
 

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Lemme try some alternative ways to type it and see how many of it is blocked.

price angels
shoptemp.com/
www.shoptemp.com
http://shoptemp.com
shoptemp
shoptemp
shoptemp
shoptemp
priceangel
Priiiiiiiceangel
shoptemp
shoptemp
QUOTE said:
shoptemp
Pricepriceshoptemp
preiceengelz

Edit: Impressive. here's the original code.
CODEprice angels
shoptemp.com/
www.shoptemp.com
http://shoptemp.com
shoptemp
shoptemp
shoptemp
shoptemp
priceangel
Priiiiiiiceangel
shoptemp
shoptemp
shoptemp[/spoiler]
Pricepriceshoptemp
preiceengelz

EDIT: OMG! It edits code too.
 

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