Feedback & Announcements > There seems to be lots of spammers joining recently

[3rdpoliceman]

I may be wrong but it just seems that a lot of spammers have been joining the forum of late.

[Lenny]

If you can tell them to stop doing that, I'd be grateful

[3rdpoliceman]

I thought you might have a way of stopping them from coming. Like magic or something. Just sometimes there are new people who have joined with spammer-type names and spammery signatures.

[Lenny]

I have a spam blocker. But it only blocks spam in posts, not profiles. I do delete all spam accounts, but it takes up a lot of time.

[3rdpoliceman]

That's a pity. I thought webmasters were all-powerful or something. Can't there be some website that specialises in eradicating them? I don't even get what spam is for. It's to sell creepy things, right? Why are they even spamming this site of all places?

[Lenny]

They put links to websites in their profiles. The more links a site has, the higher it ranks in Google. Of course it is best to get links at relevant sites, but quantity counts as well, so they'll also spam this site.

[3rdpoliceman]

Wait, so am I a spammer by putting a link in my profile?

[Lenny]

It's about the intention.