Is there a log I can check?

[AugustaCalidia]

 

Yes, a basic truth of mod testing is that it's always the last one that's the problem.

I started playing Skyrim SE the other night, got everything set up, and started downloading MODs. Tried to keep to mods fairly recently updated, and everything worked nicely. No errors in Vortex, and I played the game to level 10 with my current character. Played as a Vampire (mod), and didn't decide to go to Whiterun to start the main quest until now, at level 10 (Always so much fun in that game).

 

It's quite flattering that spammers most often pick my posts to "respond" to. They know quality when they see it! :smile: (I'm trying to look on the bright side of this otherwise darksome enterprise.)

[Dark0ne]

Robin - what benefit do Spam bots get? I can't figure out how they make money from this behavior. Not even ad clicks...

 

The bot will copy some text that another user has written earlier on in the thread, or elsewhere on the forum, to try and look pertinent and part of the chat. Nothing "malicious" is posted at this point.

 

Then, at some future date, the bot will come back and edit what they've posted to include links to the usual spammy shite - viagra, pirated streams/goods and so on and so forth. Because a post edit doesn't bump the topic, no one is the wiser unless it's spotted and reported at some later date, which is less likely, which means the spam has more time to sit there and be seen both by other people, and by the Google bots that are going around. The spammers are a bit thick, you see, and think search engine SEO still works off of how many link backs their pages get.

[AugustaCalidia]

@Dark0ne

 

Thank you for the explanation about spam bots.

[rmm200]

Likewise - thanks.

I never thought of them as a trap, not yet sprung.

We will report them as a matter of course.

[HadToRegister]

 

Robin - what benefit do Spam bots get? I can't figure out how they make money from this behavior. Not even ad clicks...

 

The bot will copy some text that another user has written earlier on in the thread, or elsewhere on the forum, to try and look pertinent and part of the chat. Nothing "malicious" is posted at this point.

 

Then, at some future date, the bot will come back and edit what they've posted to include links to the usual spammy shite - viagra, pirated streams/goods and so on and so forth. Because a post edit doesn't bump the topic, no one is the wiser unless it's spotted and reported at some later date, which is less likely, which means the spam has more time to sit there and be seen both by other people, and by the Google bots that are going around. The spammers are a bit thick, you see, and think search engine SEO still works off of how many link backs their pages get.

 

 

 

Wow, thanks for the explanation, I didn't realize how scummy that actually was.