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Re: How to deal with spammers advertising their own websites
by
stompix
on 08/11/2018, 15:42:37 UTC
Damn I feel like I was doing the same, opening a thread and disappearing (s*** isp)

Loycev is absolutely right, he scrapes other websites for news and creates a simple page with a  read more button that links  to the original, something like a news aggregator website and I'm pretty sure he uses a plug-in to automatize it.

This is quite a difficult topic for me to answer, as I tend to include links to my websites. The Fit to Talk project is one example. I think if a post is being made just to promote a website that is owned by the poster, and the site is not of benefit to Bitcoin Talk or its members, then the post should be deleted.

Jet Cash, you're nowhere near to what this guy is doing.  Grin

There's no definitive rule that says you can't post links to your website, but I think this falls under advertising spam and people have been temp banned before just for spamming links to their site. He's clearly only here to promote his website and I've actually given him at least one warning about this before.

Maybe it's time for another warning, a bit more serious this time...
Either way, it seems two of his 5 threads started today are gone, so somebody (if not you) is trashing them