Why Bots spam Maiotaku every day

Have you guys been wondering why the constant bot posts? I did some investigation out of curiosity and found out why. It's all about how google does search engine results to influence AI search indexing. The bot creates a long article about a game, stuffs it with bullshit phrases like “buy MLB Stubs” or “cheap game currency,” and then links to the site it wants to promote. Because MaiOtaku is an old, publicly indexed website, Google can crawl those forum posts. The goal is to create backlinks. A backlink is simply a link from another website pointing to theirs. Search engines can use links and the surrounding text as signals for what a website is about and how relevant it might be to certain searches. They post a bunch of AI slop gibberish just to make the google AI think the link is legit. They likely do this automatically across thousands of old forums and poorly moderated websites. Even if most of the links are ignored by Google and nobody here clicks them, they still think it's worth doing because generating and posting the spam costs almost nothing.

Can confirm. Before the AI did this, it was something corporations hired real writers for. Basically you post something relevant to what's being said in a thread, then segway into a landing page. I almost got a job doing that when I was strapped for cash, but chose to market myself more for world building. I dunno, I just need to write for something that has a soul. But yeah, before the AI indexing, we had Bit Coin Mining Bots constantly spamming accounts. Pre-Ukrainian war, most of em came from the Kremlin. That was them trying to prep for sanctions, I'll bet.

Do not worry. We have our own AI to stop the bots. I have been testing it for several months to ensure it doesn't catch legitimate content, and have done a big cleanup recently.

Yes I had to change it to be a little more careful, sorry about that. If you have more specific UI requests they are welcome.