# TOC giving misleading information **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [February 24, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toc-giving-misleading-information/933679 "2021-02-24T22:50:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toc-giving-misleading-information/933679/39 "2021-03-09T20:34:21Z")
It’s a lot better than it used to be. Around 2015 we had a couple of spammers from Pakistan who posted links to streaming sites. They seemed put more effort into it than a real job. Every day, day in and day out, they would post dozens of these. They had to come up with new usernames and emails for every one since we usually banned them almost immediately. This went on for several years. One day one of them went nuts, maybe out of frustration, and posted more than 100 `spam messages. I was the only mod on duty when the attack began. I got something like 60 of them. This is an event that lives on as Spampocalypse. > [@A big ol' THANK YOU to everyone who reported spam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-ol-thank-you-to-everyone-who-reported-spam/731089): > > As you all probably know we’ve been undergoing a spampocalypse over the last few days. We’ve been working to keep the inconvenience to our users at a minimum. We’ve been doing our best but we’re all deeply grateful for those of you who have reported each incidence of spam. Without your extra eyes we might have missed some and allowed our spamming invaders to make some gains via their obnoxious behavior. Again, thank you for your efforts. I know you all hear a lot that you should report post… > [@Those Stupid Sports Streaming Spam Threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-stupid-sports-streaming-spam-threads/803366/33): > > They are certain capable of posting much more than they do. On September 12, 2015 (a day that will live in infamy) we were subjected to [Spampocalypse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=768425), a spam attack of unprecedented proportions. We fought them in GQ, we fought them in GD, we fought them in IMHO and MPSIMS, we fought them in the Pit. We never surrendered. Lo, when the smoke had cleared, more than 100 spammers had been sent to the Great Cornfield. (Well, 100 spammer names, but you know what I mean.) They wax and wane a bit, but … They eventually went away. Maybe they got a real job, but I like to think they got hit by a bus. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toc-giving-misleading-information/933679)._