# What's your opinion on the recent influx of spammers here? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409 "2014-01-21T22:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/1 "2014-01-21T22:37:18Z")
Has anybody here noticed the recent influx of spammers who seem to be trying to start a ‘thing’ by starting different threads that go something like “Can I sue \ if \?” or “Check out this \” or sometimes random gibberish? The reason why I am posting this thread in IMHO, is because these spam threads mostly seem to get posted in IMHO. So, what’s your opinion on the issue then? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/2 "2014-01-21T22:43:53Z")
I’m wondering what all the recent spam about Johnny Galecki is about. Is someone trying to boost his QR rating? ---
**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/3 "2014-01-21T22:48:22Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I’m wondering what all the recent spam about Johnny Galecki is about. Is someone trying to boost his QR rating? Beats me. But one has to wonder if any of these spammers have a proper life outside their career of blatant spamming of Straight Dope and possibly man other forums. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/4 "2014-01-21T22:57:24Z")
The boards show up on google, its free to join, I expect the silliness to grow. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/5 "2014-01-21T23:17:50Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I’m wondering what all the recent spam about Johnny Galecki is about. Is someone trying to boost his QR rating? I think that’s the work of another psycho with a celebrity fixation, like the poster we had for a while who could talk about nothing but whether one of the _Downton Abbey_ actresses was secretly pregnant. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/6 "2014-01-22T00:45:23Z")
Let’s remember that lots of people get new computers in the last week of every year. Every January, the SDMB gets a flurry of newbies, boneheaded questions, and spam. Our duty as members is to alert the moderators by clicking on the red triangle at the top right of a post. Every mod automatically gets notified. ---
**Author:** ![amorali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@amorali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amorali)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/7 "2014-01-22T00:53:29Z")
I’m glad I didn’t start that thread about Bigfoot porn now. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/8 "2014-01-22T11:05:38Z")
We also tend to get lots of spam and lots of trolls during school vacation periods, and I’m hoping many of the recent ones were just college kids looking for “fun” during Christmas break; in which case, it should subside now (or shortly hereafter.) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/9 "2014-01-22T11:09:34Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I think that’s the work of another psycho with a celebrity fixation, like the poster we had for a while who could talk about nothing but whether one of the _Downton Abbey_ actresses was secretly pregnant. Which _Downton Abbey_ actress did Johnny Galecki get pregnant? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/10 "2014-01-22T14:02:36Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] Let’s remember that lots of people get new computers in the last week of every year. Every January, the SDMB gets a flurry of newbies, boneheaded questions, and spam. [/QUOTE] Those of us who have been around since Cecil graduated from high school do not reminisce fondly on our days at AOL. The boards were almost unusable with all of the spam and utter stupidity from people who got their first-ever computer for Christmas. In other words - this is nothing. It used to be much worse. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-recent-influx-of-spammers-here/679409/11 "2014-01-22T14:13:02Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I think that’s the work of another psycho with a celebrity fixation, like the poster we had for a while who could talk about nothing but whether one of the _Downton Abbey_ actresses was secretly pregnant. :):):)God Bless You Always:):)🙂 For the life of me I can’t remember exactly what that nutcase actually said, or who her obsession was.