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[Catrin]

IndySteel, that is awesome! I know you and B. will miss them but it is great they now have a forever home

[Pax]

So, whats with all the bizarre posts in Nutrition/Hydration/Recipes lately? At first I thought they were spammers, but they don't appear to be selling anything... then a few hours later they're gone.

[Catrin]

So, whats with all the bizarre posts in Nutrition/Hydration/Recipes lately? At first I thought they were spammers, but they don't appear to be selling anything... then a few hours later they're gone.

Sounds like the hard working administrators have been cleaning house, so to speak. I haven't seen any of the odd posts you mentioned, but that is what it sounds like.

[lph]

I'm on a few hours before most of you because of time differences, and report the ones I see. I think they're bogus posts to build a fake "see I'm a real forum member and therefore not a spammer"-id for later use.

[OakLeaf]

And we have another one ...

[lph]

Busted, I'm a fake. My real mission here is to sell you crappy handbags, spraytans and obscure protein powders. Not to mention dancing lessons!

[Pax]

I'm on a few hours before most of you because of time differences, and report the ones I see. I think they're bogus posts to build a fake "see I'm a real forum member and therefore not a spammer"-id for later use.

Sounds reasonable. I'm up at 4am a lot so I tend to see them as well, now that I understand their nefarious nature I'll report them as well.

[indysteel]

I brought one set of posts to the administrator's attention the other day where the new member's initial posts didn't have a spam link in them but subsequent ones a few days later did. That's a new MO that I hadn't otherwise seen.

[lph]

What I don't get is why the syntax is so bizarre, way beyond non-native-speakers or dyslexia. It must be due to an automatic translator or something, but often the posts are actually somehow relevant to the topic, so whoever must have gone to the trouble of reading a few posts, writing an answer, then shoving it through an auto-translate. Why not just write something easy and generic like "this is a good discussion, thanks for the input"? And if you're going to go to all that trouble, why not add a line saying "Hi, my name is X, I love biking" too?

And why go search up really old posts? I don't get it.

[spokewench]

Yeah, its weird. I've seen a lot of those lately - I get on usually at 6 a.m. in morning in Arizona. There was another one this morning and I agree with you on the syntax. Very strange indeed

[Trek420]

Busted, I'm a fake. My real mission here is to sell you crappy handbags, spraytans and obscure protein powders. Not to mention dancing lessons!

I knew it! Me too.

[withm]

It seems to me that I once read on here that new members to the forum are somewhat moderated in that any links included in the first few messages are stripped out automatically. Then once the new member is determined to be, well, not a spammer, the links are restored to their signatures. I agree, the syntax is very bizarre. I've reported a number of these as well.

[bmccasland]

I went looking and found one. Somewhat a circular statement.

And LPH, about those dancing lessons, what type and when?

[lph]

I'm so glad you asked! Personally I subscribe to the theory that dancing is a pleasurable commotion for all ages and all juncture.

By the way, our classes are familiarized in the direction of duos and we do not necessitate duos to spin.

(Yup, this is actually lifted from one of our more entertaining spam posts.)

[OakLeaf]

Dang, I missed that one!