Spam spam spam spam spam

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:22 am

Our very own geckzilla has invented a new weapon against spam.

I call it 'Spamacide'. Anyone have an idea on how put it into the web and cause all spam to be 'Spamacized'??

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:33 pm

I must admit that I am rather proud of that little spam can. Fitting individual letters on a 3 by 4 grid of pixels is a little challenging.

That S totally tricks you.

rstevenson · Post by **rstevenson** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:17 pm

What I find most interesting about the latest spam is that I'm actually seeing a lot of it. That's only been true for the last month or two -- prior to that I was almost never aware of it. So what changed? Was APOD discovered somehow by a wider audience? Has its success (perhaps its FaceBook presence) doomed it to constant attack?

Rob

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:36 pm

Rob, last year around the turn of the year, we had a horrible problem with spam. This year, it seems to have happened again; it picked up a lot around the turn of the year. I doubt FB has anything to do with it. Other that that, it's had at least a low level of spam since I started as a mod/admin so yes, is under constant, though varied, attack.

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:32 pm

geckzilla wrote:I must admit that I am rather proud of that little spam can. Fitting individual letters on a 3 by 4 grid of pixels is a little challenging.

That S totally tricks you.

Good job, geckzilla!

Ann

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:23 pm

Ann

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:22 am

Wow, I didn't know that spam was a nice Astronomy Picture of the Day?

Oh, but it is a pretty spam picture!

Although... I don't see any stars.

Ann

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:40 am

Did you know that spam also comes in a girl flavour?

Ann

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:49 am

Yes, of course; that's not news.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:43 am

It's news to me. I thought

only came in a can.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:50 am

What audacity

A member actually posting spam in the spam thread. Take that!

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:37 pm

I eated the spam.

wonderboy · Post by **wonderboy** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:05 pm

I've never understood spam! How did it get named after a canned processed meat? It's a stumper. I have a lot of catching up to do.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:30 pm

geckzilla wrote: I eated the spam.

Wouldn't it bee correcter inglish to say that you ate'd the spam

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:33 pm

wonderboy, welcome back!!!!

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:11 pm

Beyond wrote:
geckzilla wrote: I eated the spam.
Wouldn't it bee correcter inglish to say that you ate'd the spam

See: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/1 ... -a-cookie/

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:18 pm

geckzilla wrote: I eated the spam.

I used to like eating spam; but it is one of those foods that my Dr. doesn't want me to have very often.

rstevenson · Post by **rstevenson** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:51 pm

wonderboy wrote:I've never understood spam! How did it get named after a canned processed meat? It's a stumper. I have a lot of catching up to do.

Wikipedia is your friend. Etymology of SPAM

Rob

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:01 pm

geckzilla wrote:
Beyond wrote:
geckzilla wrote: I eated the spam.
Wouldn't it bee correcter inglish to say that you ate'd the spam
See: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/1 ... -a-cookie/

Ahh... I squee

I squee

Yu did eated it up.

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:39 pm

Once again we are experiencing an outbreak of spam. Please refrain from reporting posts unless they've been on the board for more than a couple of hours so we don't have to close reports in addition to fighting the spam; thank you!

ETA: Just to give you some idea what we're up against, over 100 spam posts have been removed from the board in the past 12 hours, and dozens of spammer accounts deactivated.

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:11 pm

I just killed off five new members.

rstevenson · Post by **rstevenson** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:25 pm

It's good to have a raptor around the homestead when there are too many rodents running loose.

Rob

neufer · Post by **neufer** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:50 pm

owlice wrote:
I just killed off five new members.

Clever girl.

MargaritaMc · Post by **MargaritaMc** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:03 am

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Get the Vikings in - that'll deal with Spam!

MargaritaMc · Post by **MargaritaMc** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:33 pm

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We seem to have an infestation of Spamsky...

Starship Asterisk*

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