Can The Techies Not Syop This?

[fiction-factory]

Ed, almost everyday B&F gets lots of the same spam. Here is some of what's come into B&F this morning. I know it's a bot but can't the techies filter them out? Why not close B&F for 24 hours to confuse the bot?

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[fiction-factory]

That's a rhetorical question if ever I saw one.
It's perhaps better to report this thread then rather than push it back onto Latest Posts

[Mamyalynne]

I have

[ABSpareEditor]

I don't think closing B&F or changing its name would make much difference, they'd probably just post the links in a different topic.

We do have ways of filtering some of them out, but unfortunately we can't catch them all before they post. So please just continue to report them and we'll deal with them. Don't copy and paste their links though, that's helping them out, and we don't want to do that! :)

[janbee]

Thanks Spare Ed... will do. They are a nuisance though !

[jno]

are they really a nuisance? They don't exactly spoil my day; I report them if I see them and not if I don't. AB seems to carry on okay whichever I do.

[fiction-factory]

Well if they are not a nuisance to you I'm not sure what the reason is for reporting them. AB will go on with spam but it's better to prevent spam or remove it where possible. If spammers succeed in having several posts lying around for hours then maybe advertisers would say why should they bother paying for ads on here when they too could just post spam.
Anyway, it was just a suggestion - the Ed is open to ideas for making things better