Promotion bots on dev.to
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Promotion bots on dev.to

Publish Date: Jan 25 '21
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Have some "members" abused the good nature of this community for allowing "Read more"? I can constantly see generic names like jane doe, john, bill... posting parts of blog posts and putting Read More at the end of it. It's probably the same person but I just started tagging and reporting them. If anyone spots this feel free to flag to admins as it's clearly a some sort of promotion bot "phishing" users to it's own page.

Update: just for fun I followed the link. It looks like dev.to got a makeover (not necessarily in a good way). I think that it's basically a rip-off so maybe someone just took Forem, customized it and now trying to push users there. Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Comments 7 total

  • Dmitry
    DmitryJan 25, 2021

    Reported a huge bunch of these bots yesterday and still have a lot of them in my Moderation list.

    • HS
      HSJan 25, 2021

      same thing I suggest banning anyone who references to that blog/website

    • HS
      HSJan 25, 2021

      I've added an update but someone should try to quicklu just check was it forem taken or just copied manually :d

      • Dmitry
        DmitryJan 25, 2021

        Definitely it's not a Forem, just yet another free QA-board script getting traffic for free

        • HS
          HSJan 25, 2021

          good to know thanks

  • Neba
    Neba Oct 16, 2024

    Hi greetings
    Pls if u don’t mind me asking
    I would like for u to share ur experience on how u get your clients please
    I’ve been trying but I can’t seem to get it right 🤧

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