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Check out our new Spammy friend

http://deals.woot.com/deals/users/dfghrkyu/commented
Someone's been busy. Also, I assume they are somewhat familiar with deals.woot since they only posted on deals by staff and people with high rep.
They claim to "Accept the Paypal" Do you think they use "the Facebook" too?

by abramokids
asked a year ago

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I'll bet he's more than happy to take payments via Western Union, too.

durkzilla
a year ago

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Watch out or he'll post mean things on the Twitter about you.

wingnutzero
a year ago

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yea, he got one of my deals, but it's been cleaned so Thanks to the staff for that.

wickedd365
a year ago

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lol

you kids're all right

a.priori.eureka
a year ago

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@faughtey

Time for some PEW PEW PEW

promyst
a year ago

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Looks like they got him. RIP

promyst
a year ago

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Woot Staff: 1

Spammers: 0

killswitchdh
a year ago

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@promyst: Heh, I just started, so someone else got to Pew Pew Pew! this one.

faughtey
a year ago

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I've always wondered why woot doesn't use some kind of auto delete/ban script against these spammers. It would be easy to detect the crap they're writing. Even if they change the wording, they still have to link the site and its url (or even a portion of it) could trigger the auto delete/ban. If the spammer can't transfer us over, he'll stop harassing us.

Woot, can you clarify why you aren't doing this?

razmig00
a year ago

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I've been runnin' spammers down like a bounty hunter lately...I'm pretty sure it's a handful of people doing it, that are familiar with deals.woot. (The mods are SUPER fast. They'll kill the spam and the spammers within a minute or so usually :D)

Some of the spammers will actually create active "sleeper" accounts, add a couple deals, make a couple stupid comments and wait before triggering their improvised spamming device. Haven't studied too much, but sometimes they'll wait days.

@razmig00: I dunno about a ban/delete, but I'm sure they have an alert on certain triggers (x posts in x seconds, links, etc). Considering all of the quality traffic deals.woot gets, it's actually immaculate as far as spam goes. And any spam that slips through gets nixed, lickidy-split. Woot's got some pretty solid tech staff (and members), so I'm sure there are anti-spam measures.

drchops
a year ago

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I do not consider Spammers to be my friends.

They use up valuable resources on the servers and make @wootbot 's job harder than usual.

girlwootbot
a year ago

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@razmig00: i agree with razmig00

what do we want? no more spammers!
when do we not want them? now!

w00tgurl
a year ago

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@w00tgurl: from a former cheerleader I would think!!

klozitshoper
a year ago

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