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Re: Backslash-Key differences.

Posted: 17 Aug 2019, 23:57
by Findecanor
Spam?

This is a copy from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/keyboards/comm ... fferences/

User's previous post was on this board here.

At least this thread is a quote of a post only 1 day old ...

BTW, "Location: USA", and "always used a German keyboard layout" .... :-รพ

Re: Backslash-Key differences.

Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 00:57
by Chyros
I don't get it โ€“ what are these bots trying to achieve with this? Oo

Re: Backslash-Key differences.

Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 01:08
by depletedvespene
Chyros wrote: 18 Aug 2019, 00:57 I don't get it โ€“ what are these bots trying to achieve with this? Oo
Probably wreak havoc in automated spam filters โ€” to avoid mistakenly marking real accounts, posts like this would be given a pass and their accounts, now "legitimate", would then have a better option of posting actual spam.

Re: Backslash-Key differences.

Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 01:50
by Compgeke
^ Exactly the above. Designed to make post approvers approve the post before posting spam later.