Yep I'd do the same. From experience on here and other sites, they will come back and edit it, usually a few days later when it's dropped off the first page but can be weeks later.My current thought is to put them on approval, so if they try to go back and edit in a link we'll see it.
I've seen it a lot. One forum I read gets them all the time. I can usually spot them a mile off. They often feel the need to unnecessarily explain a common term that everyone in the topic already knows. The language also usually reads as a bit 'clinical' if you know what I mean. Maybe doesn't have the natural flow of a real person. There are no unnecessary words. Also they often seem to dig up old topics that were long since done with rather than joining in with the current crop of active topics.Honestly, it's good enough, there aren't many "tells" to give it away. Is anyone else seeing this? This is harder to catch than previous spam, if that's what it is.
I've also seen that they will often shoehorn in a key word that they're likely to edit like route or cargo or sell and that is the word where the link edit will go in a few days time.
Finally it's worth clicking edit to check the text to see if there is already a spam link in there in the form of a 1px font link which you wouldn't normally see or they've edited a . or a ' in to a link.
How can you stop them? That's a lot harder now. But it's where the mod queue comes in to its own because if they go back to edit the post they'll end up back in the mod queue if it's still under the threshold, thus flagging up that it's been changed.
Statistics: Posted by KevC — Mon Nov 04, 2024 4:46 pm