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Old Nov 6, 2014 | 5:12 pm
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Originally Posted by IBobi
You can always post or PM to me the handles *and any links* that a spammer is posting and I will do my best to block IP addresses and add unique keywords to a block list.

Paul
In this case, it didn't seem to be a link.

However, I've noticed a bunch of other suspicious posts by some brand new members that seem to quote without attribution a line or so from another post above them in the thread and then show evidence that the post was edited by its author. I wonder whether the original post contained a link or picture which they then removed themselves. Maybe I'm naive here, but it's hard to see any motivation for doing this unless it's some bot trying to build a post count.
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