They actually had this really under control for a long time. The current outbreak is kind of mildly annoying compared to several years ago.
I know from professional experience that dealing with spammers and other fraudsters is a cat-and-mouse game. As soon as you shut them down they get smarter and find ways around your blocks. Repeat forever.
I know they made an aggressive push to stop the comm spammers and also to make purchased gear disappear from your inventory. It looks like the mouse has pulled into the lead right now, but I expect the cat will make a comeback fairly soon.
The solution is their existing mechanism where everyone blocks the account and they identify that it's a spammer.
Nothing has changed, but all the old spammers gave up, and a single new one has tried again, now that everyone's out of the habit of blocking accounts instead of responding.
Go back to blocking and moving on, and they'll give up again.
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This proposition tries to solve the consequence, not the problem. Niantic just needs to do their job properly in banning those accounts.
They actually had this really under control for a long time. The current outbreak is kind of mildly annoying compared to several years ago.
I know from professional experience that dealing with spammers and other fraudsters is a cat-and-mouse game. As soon as you shut them down they get smarter and find ways around your blocks. Repeat forever.
Did they really have it under control? Or was just the stored being silent for this time?
I know they made an aggressive push to stop the comm spammers and also to make purchased gear disappear from your inventory. It looks like the mouse has pulled into the lead right now, but I expect the cat will make a comeback fairly soon.
I guess that's right, wouldn't make much sense for stores to be silent anyways.
Turn off mention notifications and never look at the comm tab, that works for me.
not sure why comm spam is back after all years silent.. hope they can fix this quickly.
It's been posited that the back end changes earlier this month unintentionally undid something that was blocking them.
The solution is their existing mechanism where everyone blocks the account and they identify that it's a spammer.
Nothing has changed, but all the old spammers gave up, and a single new one has tried again, now that everyone's out of the habit of blocking accounts instead of responding.
Go back to blocking and moving on, and they'll give up again.