Poet Guy is puzzled by this. Usually spam threads have links to off-site porn or merchandise sites, on the (probably mistaken) idea that someone will follow the link and purchase some inferior Chinese knock-off running shoes, just on the spur of the moment.
This is obviously more subtle, though Poet Guy cannot divine the purpose. A regular thread (in this case one by bogusagain) is cloned, but there are no obviously spam components to it. No links to junk sites, for example.
Is it a means of gathering User IDs? One would think a bot could simply sweep the forum for those.
Anyone have any ideas about this? They have picked on bogusagain, Tristesse2, twelveoone, probably others. There seems to be no rhyme or reason.
This is obviously more subtle, though Poet Guy cannot divine the purpose. A regular thread (in this case one by bogusagain) is cloned, but there are no obviously spam components to it. No links to junk sites, for example.
Is it a means of gathering User IDs? One would think a bot could simply sweep the forum for those.
Anyone have any ideas about this? They have picked on bogusagain, Tristesse2, twelveoone, probably others. There seems to be no rhyme or reason.