What happened to the filters???Follow

I've seen an increasing amount of spam for things like this:



Are the spammers just using clever mark up tricks to break the filters, or have the filters somehow gotten bollixed?

Hmmmm... Allakhazam!

[Seems at least some of the filters still work.]

Edited to reflect original post having been deleted. No sense in preserving the ad.

Edited, Apr 9th 2012 12:33pm by Rhodekylle

Yes, a lot of the posts seem to get edited several times and even the "copy pasta random WOW stuff to camouflage a link" get caught with decent regularity. The ones I'm referring to are odd in that they don't seem to bother with those tricks, the come right out and mention "WOW Gold" or "Powerleveling" right in the text and title. I linked to one such on the theory that even though it is nuked, the admins can probably track it down.

If you recall, when I started posting the filters were so twitchy I kept getting posts randomly censored for things that weren't even in the message. Thus, my curiosity about whether the spammers are using mark up tricks or if something changed with the filters. Those were the kind of filter that did things like change Allakhazam to Allakhazam and which still seem to be at least partially in place.

Hawaiian and Korean posters?

Thanks for the the background, Kao. Given how filters can slow a PC down, I can imagine that they'd do the same on your side. I'll just keep whacking the report button. By convenient happenstance, many of them seem to post during just the same hours that I'm on. Now, about that title...