Point out spammers here

WTF is going on here?

truth...

schnei http://libcom.org/user/1459943

Is Owentiffie a real person, or a spambot? Most of their posts are completely generic, substance-less one-liners, but there do seem to be exceptions.

Might be a friendly spambot.

Owentiffie's pointless one-liner postings, often on old threads they seem to have belatedly discovered, are starting to irritate me now!

Looks like "katyleen" on this thread is another spambot too

So I don't think Owen is a bot actually. katyleen's posts seem real too, or at least their posts are relevant somewhat and aren't just adverts or parts of other people's comments in a thread.

Them bots are smart these days though!

Well looking at the introduce yourself thread, he could be a bot-agent of "Critter Nation Cages" trying to sell us sugar glider habitats...

I think they are both bots, I only haven't deleted OWen's posts because I am not 100%. Sometimes they practise with bots so that once they have made a few posts without being spotted and establishing themselves they can then spam. Doesn't seem much point here, but they do it.

You also get accounts that are really old and suddenly after 7 years start spamming, this could be because they got hacked or some seriously long term spamming.

Time to expel 'Owentiffie' please!!

Yes! And 'Harriettna' as well.

As if Jef, I have thought about deleting Owentiffle posts; pretty sure it's a bot, but not 100% (good job developers), so want to leave that decision for the admins. Given that Owentiffle hasn't posted in this thread and at leas tried to answer any of the "accusations" of its non-humanity, it is pretty telling. Most people would respond... Hopefully the account won't flood the forums with spam; so tedious to remove it all.

ZJW, can you link to Harriettna's posts?

Khawaga, Sorry I just saw your question today. There's one is at the bottom of an article in Chinese of all things: https://libcom.org/blog/aww-breakdown-zh . That's the only one I have ever noticed.

Thanks.