Canoe o rama

Looks like the main GRM page has been attacked by mainland China. Again.

Yikes!  it's a veritable flotilla!

Been. It’s the Spanish Armada. Call on Francis Drake

Hey China, this really isnt effective marketing ok? Thank you!

Well!  That was dealt with remarkably fast!

A big round of awesome for the mods!

Here here to the mods !!

Outstanding work in think I counted 37 of them. 

All I could think of was this sketch:

Apparently, I missed the carnage.  

EDIT: Reload boys, they're coming around again. 

Adrian_Thompson said:

Outstanding work in think I counted 37 of them. 

Oh bl**dy hell.  They're back, and in greater numbers.

It’s actually getting a little scary around here:

TJL said:

Hey China, this really isnt effective marketing ok? Thank you!

They're not marketing to us. They're trying to get links to their pages from web sites that Google considers having authority to fiddle their search ranking.

Does or can grm have an approval of new members before allowing posting??

jfryjfry said:

Does or can grm have an approval of new members before allowing posting??

 

I suggested that, once, after a Chinese spam raid. Many of the forums I visit have a "new members must post introductory post here, and be approved by mods, before able to post links" section. My suggestion was shot down, deemed unnecessary. 

The question is, would it be more work for the mods to approve every member than to delete some canoes? Maybe, who knows. Also some forums (although it's rare) take an annoyingly long time to approve new members and make me not want to post there after all.

How about banning anything with more than 5 words in a language other than English?

I blame Poopy's sunglasses thread.

is historical flounder still flounder?

ebonyandivory said:

How about banning anything with more than 5 words in a language other than English?

That would kill my build thread, given how many times I'd post colorful phrases in Polish, or Finnish, or Russian.  Probably others.

Once you can swear in another language, you know half of what is needed to communicate effectively, and the other half doesn't matter.

A forum I look at from time to time does not allow links until 20 posts. Seems like a good solution, without the effort of needing to approve all new users.

For new users who are magazine subscribers, you could prompt them for info on the magazine mailing label, obviating the need to prevent these new users from linking.

Looks like they're back.  

edit:  Thanks again mods for the rapid cleanup.