Isn't it enough that they recently started to put spam into signatures and personal statements (don't know how much of these I deleted in the lat few weeks), now this...
There seems to be some kind of new spam wave coming up. All handmade quality spam, I can assure you, as a clever trick in the registering system keeps spambots away (more or less).
A regular spam thread is usually spotted and eliminated quickly by the team. But one of the recent new methods is to just quote a random post in a thread and edit a spam link into it. Doesn't look like spam at a first glance and might go unnoticed by the team. If you discover one of those, please report the respective post(s).
Also, the above mentioned spam links in signatures and/or personal statements. If you discover one of those, please report. The tricky thing about this: they usually just place their links into their profile but never post. They don't even want to click anyone on it, they just want another hidden link somewhere in he web in order to get a better Google ranking.
Please do not post a reply to spam posts. If we see a member 'garglkak_0815' as last poster in a four year old thread, it smells of spam like a can of Surströmming even from the 'Today's Posts' list. But if, say, Loomis decides to post a fun reply to it like "This is spam and we all know it", it may go unnoticed.
This spam by PM thing is something he team can't control. All we can do is deal with those 'members' when you report them. Hope this isn't just the beginning.
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