Last year it was SEO spam.
This year it might be DVD rippers.
During the last couple of weeks, the Wesnoth.org forums have been constantly hit with a “new” kind of spam involving DVD ripping software, which may also involve some kind of scam as the linked site contains a Buy button, amongst other things. I’m not touching it further; not even with my 5 mt. pole.
You read me right. It’s not new in the literal sense of the word, since I have seen this shit hitting us before, albeit at a much slower rate. If I recall correctly, I have banned no less than 6 accounts in less than two weeks because of the current trend.
Whoever invented it clearly targets a low-IQ demographic, with retarded statements such as the following:
Many DVD users want to enjoy their favorite DVDs on their portable devices
Nobody whom I know would, in their sane minds, watch a friggin’ movie on a device with such low resolution and display size. We’re mainly talking of Apple’s iShit devices, of course. And I’m not going to get into how “illegal” or not it is to break those lovely DRM restrictions.
Since I’m in a lazy mood today, I’ll leave the research of the purpose of this shady “marketing campaign” to my readers and loyal fans.
BTW the resolution on those i-gadgets are better than you'd expect, but Apple wants you to pay for the movie all over again, they don't care if you just bought the dvd. Happily, there are reliable ripping options that can be easily found with a google search. They have no need to spam the wesnoth forums to sell their software.
It seems the theme depends on forum engine, on a SMF installation I'm getting almost exclusively spambots with links in profile that go to "looks like a normal eshop" pages... The subjects really range between selling yachts, watches, medical care, construction equipment etc.
But last year was decidedly SEO here, too
Custom form fields exclusive to your forum/site seem to be really good against fully automated registrations. It’s too bad that there are also real people behind some of that garbage.