# Message Board

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 11, 2013, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711 "2013-06-11T11:13:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board/660711/21 "2013-06-11T20:03:17Z")

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> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> How can it be a spammer if it never posted to those other websites?

- They posted a stupid one line question in what I call “Indian Forum English”. Ic all it that because I’ve seen that behavior and style of broken English a lot from human spammers, and the IP addresses are almost always from Airtel Broadband.

- India is home to hundreds of “link building” operations. In English, “link building” means “forum spamming for SEO”. Indians can get past the security measures designed to stop regbots like xRumer.

- The same username was registered on other unrelated message boards around the same time.

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