Have you ever been to a forum which has gone inactive and found it spammed with ads? Why are they spamming those forums, when no one is reading the ads? Also, how can there be any real SEO value to spamming an inactive forum with links, when most likely the forum no longer ranks high in Google search?
Why do inactive forums get spammed so much?
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Because if they don't get blocked the first time, they know this forum probably doesn't have any safety measures to block another attack, and so on. I don't think they know whether the forum is active or not. They just know there is nothing blocking them.
For a spam bot, any publicity is good publicity. They get probably make millions of posts each year, so chances are their link will be clicked and seen.
For a spam bot, any publicity is good publicity. They get probably make millions of posts each year, so chances are their link will be clicked and seen.
It works. It is the abandoned building you can always 'tag', so long it is online , there is always the risk of someone stumbling upon it. Specially if the forum albeit inactive has a good rank in Google results, as their posts may appear as part of someone else query results.
I've seen plenty of sites like this and it's not limited to forums. I've seen plenty of blogs that have been abandoned where comments are automatically shown and each post has thousands of comments of spam.
I don't know why people that own websites like this who choose to abandon it don't just get rid of it, instead of letting it sit there getting spammed to oblivion.
I don't know why people that own websites like this who choose to abandon it don't just get rid of it, instead of letting it sit there getting spammed to oblivion.
Red Herring
Paragon
It's an unfortunate consequence in this day and age for any community webmasters. If you intend to run a community, you can expect to be accosted by spammers at some point, whether that be in Spambot or Human spammer form. The only thing we can do is to install the latest security protocols to ensure only a very few get through.
Inactive boards are no longer guarded by the comfort of an adminsitrator(s), so if that board did not have any anti-spam plugins / software, or said software is terribly out of date, then a fate of a million spambots is the unfortunate conclusion.
Inactive boards are no longer guarded by the comfort of an adminsitrator(s), so if that board did not have any anti-spam plugins / software, or said software is terribly out of date, then a fate of a million spambots is the unfortunate conclusion.
Black Angel
Resident
In short, no consequences. An inactive forum is likely a forum that is no longer looked after by its staff and therefore it is free publicity, especially if it had a very good pagerank.
As much as I absolutely HATE spambots, and I am in disbelief over what I am about to say, I am not sure if I would go so far as to say that they are bad people. The people behind the posts are just trying to make a living and probably hate spamming someone else's forum as much as you hate to clean it up.
For all we know, they were some recently laid off worker who dedicated most of their life to a company that repaid their loyalty with a pink slip. And after weeks and months of no success on the job search, and burning through their savings on bills and other expenses, they reluctantly answered one of those "work from home" ads that you see everywhere, and had to swallow their pride because they have a family that they need to take care of and can't afford to maintain their indignant, yet justified attitude toward spam.
But the blame should go to the companies who pay email providers for your personal info and the keywords found in your emails and of course, the fat cats sitting in their fancy suits not caring about the people who voted for them or the economy they promised to do something about.
CM30 said:
As much as I absolutely HATE spambots, and I am in disbelief over what I am about to say, I am not sure if I would go so far as to say that they are bad people. The people behind the posts are just trying to make a living and probably hate spamming someone else's forum as much as you hate to clean it up.
For all we know, they were some recently laid off worker who dedicated most of their life to a company that repaid their loyalty with a pink slip. And after weeks and months of no success on the job search, and burning through their savings on bills and other expenses, they reluctantly answered one of those "work from home" ads that you see everywhere, and had to swallow their pride because they have a family that they need to take care of and can't afford to maintain their indignant, yet justified attitude toward spam.
But the blame should go to the companies who pay email providers for your personal info and the keywords found in your emails and of course, the fat cats sitting in their fancy suits not caring about the people who voted for them or the economy they promised to do something about.
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