User registration of businesses showing up on Doomworld

[Reisal]

"Welcome to our newest member, LATaxAudit"

I looked at the profile and it's definitely geared towards advertising their business. What's the point of a Los Angeles tax audit service have on a Doom forum? Unless the person registering it legitimately does have an interest in the games, this seems a bit fishy.

[Arctangent]

I don't think accounts need to be approved to appear on that message.

[gaspe]

It looks like he didn't last long.

[RestlessRodent]

Maybe he ported his tax filing/audit software to Boom scrollers, voodoo dolls, with a flat based graphics device running an emulated Linux MIPS machine.

But since he was banned, we shall never know!!1

[Gez]

Spambots.

[Reisal]

The profile did have a Twitter account and a website link on it for those who didn't see it.

[Clonehunter]

Maybe he was just an innocent Doomer but couldn't sign up and browse at Work unless it looked like he was advertising.

[fraggle]

Sounds like Doomworld should be using rel=nofollow for profile links.

[Linguica]

fraggle said:

Sounds like Doomworld should be using rel=nofollow for profile links.

...it does though?

[GreyGhost]

Meh - what's the bet the location they've provided is a virtual office they're leasing to impress potential clients.

[Gentlepoke]

Something tells me it was attempting to promote its product here but was stopped by the authentication process.

[Pure Hellspawn]

Gez said:

Spambots.

not sure if that's 100%. do spambots fill in the optional occupation and interests fields while leaving others blank?

[Gentlepoke]

Pure Hellspawn said:

not sure if that's 100%. do spambots fill in the optional occupation and interests fields while leaving others blank?

They can if they are built for vBulletin.

[Pure Hellspawn]

Gentlepoke said:

They can if they are built for vBulletin.

oh. those fields are part of all vBulletin forums by default?

[Buckshot]

I wish there was some of those "male enhancememt/enlargement" spamming bots around here to improve my less-than-stellar size.

I am disappoint.

...and so is she.

[Gentlepoke]

Pure Hellspawn said:

oh. those fields are part of all vBulletin forums by default?

For the most part, yes.

[Doominator2]

I bet he was here to sue Linguica but was banned before he could even start the lawsuit.

[Gentlepoke]

Doominator2 said:

I bet he was here to sue Linguica but was banned before he could even start the lawsuit.

He might have actually been here to help Freedoom's developers get tax breaks?