I’m sorry, I know y’all hate it when we just drop a url and go. But I don’t know how to describe this except to say “Click on this weird thing!”
[Moderator Note - This link does not go to the SDMB. It is a copy on another site. DO NOT SIGN IN ON THIS PAGE. Also, note that the page itself could be malicious. Click at your own risk. Link spoilered.]
I realize that you said that you don’t know how to describe it… but can you please describe it? Maybe a place or post to look at?
Sorry, I clicked and thumbed through and I saw nothing strange.
Kinda weird that the thread linked to didn’t show me signed in to the SDMB.
The link has a copy of this thread from the SDMB, except every post has been edited to say “AutoRebba Consignment & Sales” instead of “CarMax”, and most instances of “car” turned to “camper”. It’s a very weird attempt at spam.
You have to keep reading and let the creepy valley feeling sink in a bit.
For one thing, I’ve never bought a car from those people or engaged in a thread about them. And every post seems to have a link to their website. . .
It’s like a page has been replicated and re-written to make us look like we’re endorsing them.
I feel weirdly violated.
ETA: or, what the Dr. said.
BTW, to anyone clicking the link, DO NOT try to sign in on their site. For all anyone knows, they’re harvesting usernames and passwords from people fooled into thinking it’s the SDMB. Reporting the OP in case the mods want to break the link or something.
The thing I did notice was that the link you provided didn’t match typical Straight Dope urls - compare the url from this thread - http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19787777#post19787777
to the one for your link
I thought that was odd, but I know slightly less than jack about this type of stuff so I assumed the difference made sense but I just don’t know enough to get it.
Me neither.
That’s some Sherlock Holmes shit right there!
Moderator Note
I spoilered the link in the OP. As already noted in this thread, the link does not go to the SDMB but instead goes to a copy on another site. It’s probably just an attempt at spamming or boosting their search engine results, but since we have no control over that page who knows what is there. I would assume that the site is malicious until proven otherwise.
Do not sign in on that page.
Yikes! I never thought of that! I didn’t try to sign in though as it clearly wasn’t our url.
Thank you!
If you get a login from Jenny with password 8675309, you’ll know it was from that site. (It just gave a 404, but who knows.)
This whole thing is bizarre. I guess it just proves that you can never be too campereful when surfing the net.