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The Sad State of The Spambot Industry.
Keon:
Look at this pathetic spambot that is running havoc around gaming sites on youtube.
"This video is very great! I have to say that I've viewed it more than once now. For a far better online game (in my opinion) go check this one out . You might like it, I think.
MyFunOnlineG (removing just for extra security) mes (dot) com" <-- do not click link, prolly a virus, can't be bothered to set up a VM to test.
So, having some experience with being on the receiving side of spambots that were equally stupid, I would like to do something about this. In other words,
This is what we need to pass, before we can actually call the spambot industry a succeeding one.
Hence, I present: Keon's Pseudocode Youtube Spambot.
* Take name of youtube video spambot plans to comment on. For example, Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily Stage Acapella, or Minecraft Feed The Beast #57 - Twilight Labyrinth!
* Take string, separate by " " character, the space. Eg, get the words.
* Remove last word and one random word from anywhere in the list, assuming video has more than 2 words. Drop all numbers. Also drop all small words, like the, a , an, etc. So, we have something like "Mega Man Dr. Stage" and "Minecraft Feed The Twilight
* Search youtube for result. Take a hit between #s 5-10. Eg: Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily's Castle: Stage 1 [Bossfight Remix], or Minecraft Feed The Beast - Episode 4: Twilight Forrest & Dimension Travel
* Post youtube comment on target video (the first one) like this.
"You know, this video reminded me of a cool video I saw once. It was called something like [insert new video name here]. If you want to see it, the link is here. [Link to spambot site, but looks like a video site. Call it, I don't know, "Gamevideos" or something]
* Introduce slight variations, fine tune ideas. Don't do this often enough to really make people mad. Just one here, one there.
* Create many alt-accounts to upvote those spam posts. Post replies like "Holy crap, epic!" and "lol!"
* Same accounts that post these links also post a ton of constructive comments. They reply to the top comment with a thing like "lol" or "hahah" and will copy comments below them. (That is, they see a comment that says "wow, this is awesome budder diesquids" (obv somebody watches a bit too much skydoesminecraft) they will post the exact same thing 20-30 comments later.)
* have alt accounts subscribe to all channels they frequent.
Bam. Looks like an average, kinda stupid youtuber. Guy can look into why they linked to spam website and just see a avid minecraft and cod fanboy. Maybe even have site display a youtube video, but have it also display a bunch of popups and install some kind of adware.
To be clear, I have no plans of implementing this, and even if I did, "GameVideos . fakewebsite" would redirect to the wikipedia page on spambots and malware.
Edit: close paren. Also, I'm a terrible person, aren't I.
Keon:
So yeah, this is a topic for talking about spambots, and how you hate them, and how we nearly lost the bot wars on the old forum, and such. And also improving my dread spambot ploy.
Swizy:
I don't like spambots.
discuss
Gryphos:
I concur
Piemanlives:
We had a spam bot war? I might have been out of commission for that.
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