Aaaaaaarrrrggghhhhh!

Aaaaaaarrrrggghhhhh!

Look, I declined the invitations because I am not interested in your Auto Show community. I am not interested in your Car Show Girls community and not in any of the other communities for which you are flooding me with invitations.

You braindead spammers can create another two dozen fake accounts to flood me and others with further invitations, but I will still not be interested!

It's just bad that some of these spam communities have now accumulated something like 30k members (zombies?), so Google will probably not judge them to be simple spam.

Google+, could you guys perhaps limit the number of invitations that can be sent for a community within a certain time frame? I know this is difficult, because each invitation may have different targets, so this is hard to evaluate, but those people are really spoiling G+.

I know those accounts look relatively authentic now, but a girl with Vietnamese features and a very US-sounding name should be as suspicious as the opposite case. I don't mind rejecting two or three spam invitations per week, but recently someone opened the flood gates and now it is more like up to ten a day.

This is not funny.
#spam #rant

*"More spammers on approach vector, Sir!"

*"More spammers on approach vector, Sir!"
"Close all hatches! Sound the alarm! Prepare to repell boarders!"*

I don't know about you, but for me spam on G+ is increasing at an uncomfortable rate. I am circled by more and more people who only post links to blog/website articles, never reply to comments etc. Usually they link to the same site again and again, and usually it is something I have not the slightest interest in. I mean, I can accept a casual bike accessory post, but this...

I am not interested in watching other people do sports, not at all. So if someone wants to introduce the NextSportStar to me, my response is rather dull. I also do not need furniture available in a country a few thousand kilometres away. I do not need attorney help, especially in another country. And I am not interested in Indian films.

I tried reporting those people in the beginning (not a person), but I am not sure if that really helps. Plus, now they have become a bit smarter and after five spam posts they may insert one or two reshares, usually photos. Still no reply to comments, never, but they try to pretend to look like a regular user.

Does anyone know of the success rate to get those people banned through reporting? And how do you handle them? I hope this kind of spam will be reduced when identities can be confirmed - but that means giving up a bit of anonymity for some of us, using a real name...
#spam  #spamming