What is it with all these trolls and spammers?

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This place has always had them as long as I can remember but there seems to be a lot more lately over the past couple months. What is going on?

The mods finally have their banning tools but the troll and spammer activities have still increased. I wonder where are they coming from and if they are former members that have been banned in the past. Or are they just spam bots?

This place is where I have seen the most trolls and spammers even though I don't get the chance to see what they post because it's been reported and taken care of before I could see it.

Well, for one, a lot of previously banned members have somehow had their accounts reactivated since the site upgraded. Dunno why.

As for spammers, well, we're whacking them as fast as possible.

Be advised that the staff is aware of the problem and is working hard to rid the site of never-do-wells.

I got 2 emails today,one sent me to the topic to respond and the other said I was banned.

to my knowledge only one formerly banned troll has been resurrected, but that's been taken care of already.

most of what you see comes just from spambots, non-human programs with irrelevant ads and links to sites, lots of which are malicious (so best not to click, though that's probably a no-brainier by now)
they could be sent out by scammers who recieve commission if the product is bought.

many of them just puke out one single post/thread and die out, so once that's been dealt with a ban could probably not be needed, but i still whack em just to be sure. we've gotten a few IP's too.

it's the really prolific ones that are a PITA, and gave me a headache last time

so they've got no purpose on here except to spew out hilariously garbled, incomprehensible word salads good for a chuckle or two.

^ Yup.

no one has answered why I keep getting emails saying im banned when I clearly am not because im posting now

it seems like that was just an error. if you get any more ban emails (which hopefully you shouldn't) just delete them - they mean nothing and you're no troublemaker.

i've gotten errors on the forum (not thru links) that say that the forum "doesn't exist". weird. refreshing, or accessing it by other means usually works.

A lot of the moderators left in recent months and they are very short staffed. I am amazed they are able to respond as well as they have.

Alex is now very engaged here but I think it will take a year or so to hire and train moderators and for the new moderators to get experience.

I also get "banned" for "spamming" occasionally

Why do people keep feeding the trolls?

"tomato" is one of the biggest trolls on WP. He posts incoherent ramblings about how humanity are all robots and "unspiritual." He backs up his nonsense ramblings with links to crackpot websites and video clips from films such as The Matrix. If you disagree with him and he can't think of a response, he usually retorts by calling you a "robot," "conformist," or claims you're "not thinking deeply enough."

Some of the things he's said:

"masturbation destroys your brain"

"most Jews have autism and psychosis"

"only unevolved people procreate"

"socializing is a sin"

He seems really seriously disturbed and I find him a very disturbing presence here. I thought he was a troll from the beginning, and Tallyman did too, he issued a warning to him - though this guy continues his mega-offensive rants..