# Are we being hit by a bad spammer?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-hit-by-a-bad-spammer/937134>\
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**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-hit-by-a-bad-spammer/937134 "2021-03-04T02:17:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-hit-by-a-bad-spammer/937134/21 "2021-03-10T13:28:52Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> Aren’t all spammers bad?

If you mean “bad” as “ineffective”, then yeah. This has to be one of the worst places to try to generate spam traffic on the entire web.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-hit-by-a-bad-spammer/937134/22 "2021-08-25T14:21:52Z")

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Is there another spammer active? Because again I’m seeing the “suggested topics” being months old.

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