[wp-forums] Subtle spam

[andrew nevins]

Looking at a post from 5 days ago I have a feeling this is actually a bot,
or at least the primary reason to post on the forums is to advertise.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-access-admin-area-of-site?replies=16&view=all#post-5830938


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:

> Good catch!
>
> I've also blocked his other account (sock you-know-what).
>
> https://wordpress.org/support/profile/wordpressdcc
>
> Asking for help==good. Littering the forums with your link needlessly and
> in other people's topics? Not so much.
>
>  andrew nevins <mailto:andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com>
>> August 1, 2014 at 5:09 AM
>>
>> Has anyone noticed the site "digcouponcodes" dot com being promoted on the
>> forums on more than one account?
>>
>> I have, and I have moderated the places that it has occurred in which
>> means
>> I can't do an accurate bb-admin string search on the posts.
>>
>> But here's one showing two accounts promoting it:
>> https://wordpress.org/support/bb-admin/posts.php?post_text=
>> http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digcouponcodes.com%2F&forum_id=0&tag=&post_author=&post_
>> status=all&poster_ip=
>>
>> So they look like legit posts but I've seen the "loosi007" account for
>> example posting to peddle traffic to that site.
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