Mods, please do you magic!
I don’t think I have seen it this bad. Why does anyone look at obvious spam? Just wondering.
Yes, very bad and senseless.
I expect maybe COTH was not targeted, but side swiped by some general spam on the internet.
Sigh …
There is a more sophisticated scammer around this morning.
It hits any old thread where it can be the last post on a page, so any post after that warning not to click is not seen, unless you go to the next page, which may catch those that are not paying attention.
Hit this morning in several forums.
May want to let the computer gurus know about that, see if they can stop it?
Bluey, thanks for the heads up. Seems like as soon as one hole is patched, the spammers make a new one… picture the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike :lol:
I think that web sites function statistically under the influences determined by the Lorenz paradigm:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10…-0348-0697-8_1
That may be why they, while confined, still have variations all over the place that are hard to control, too much information slowly may degrade the system.
Similar principle to why we can’t reliably predict, say, the weather to come.
The more information we have some is noise and the further we want to predict, the more parametrization that needs to be used, the larger the inconsistencies that will present in the projections.
That is what hackers and spammers work with.
They are using the holes that small effects cause big results somewhere else to see if they can guide those results to their advantage, while everyone else trying to use the systems in the prescribed manner gets annoyed at them.
Programmers can only do so much, there will always be those holes.
Patch-patch-patch after the fact is all they at times can manage.
