BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / BOSS YOUR MAILBOX IS FULL!

**Posted by Davina** December 5, 2014 9:26 am

Hello, can't PM you as it won't let me. It says your mailbox is full. Spammer on Introduction thread needs banning. Have noted which one for you in heading etc.

**Posted by Davina** December 5, 2014 9:28 am

Likewise on Meet The Members thread. Again flagged.

**Posted by SusiGo** December 5, 2014 9:43 am

There are three pages of new threads opened by this spambot. I managed to send a PM to the Boss this morning. But I do not have the time to delete three pages manually.

**Posted by Davina** December 5, 2014 9:51 am

I'm working through them now.

**Posted by SusiGo** December 5, 2014 9:52 am

Thanks, dear.

**Posted by Davina** December 5, 2014 10:05 am

Yay! The Boss is on and they are gone!

**Posted by mrshouse** December 5, 2014 10:09 am

Thank you, Boss and Davina. That was really unnerving and is just unnecessary work for you.
I just wonder what those trolls want to achieve? Maybe I'm too blue-eyed but what is behind this?

**Posted by REReader** December 5, 2014 12:28 pm

They want to get click-throughs, usually.

**Posted by silverblaze** December 5, 2014 3:24 pm

Not necessarily click throughs. Websites with lots of links to it used to do better in SEO rankings. I think Google has changed that now, but still you see dodgy sites trying to get higher ratings by posting random links on forums and blog comments.

**Posted by REReader** December 5, 2014 3:35 pm

silverblaze wrote:
Not necessarily click throughs. Websites with lots of links to it used to do better in SEO rankings. I think Google has changed that now, but still you see dodgy sites trying to get higher ratings by posting random links on forums and blog comments.

Interesting. I didn't realize the bots hadn't caught up with the Google algorithms yet. (I guess they don't bother to ever shut them down once they are released.)

**Posted by silverblaze** December 5, 2014 3:42 pm

Well, they're not self-organising. They're not that clever (yet). But I don't know a great deal about them.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** December 5, 2014 5:40 pm

Ugh, I have so many messages I need to get rid of....