What is IT about the witching hour or the wee hours of the night that causes spammers to......
SUDDENLY APPEAR......in the question/answer or forum sections? Isn't quite strange that from 1 a.m. to about 5 a.m., there are spammers lurking about....They seem to materialize........out of nowhere, specifically in the question/answer section and sometimes in the forums.......The night does makes some do.......strange things...
Ooh ooh... I know the answer to this one: It's all the infomercials that are on all the channels on TV after midnight. Apparently, people who work second shift like to buy useless crap. I mean, who wouldn't buy a genuine reproduction of a buffalo nickel three times normal size clad in 0.00000005 mg of PURE GOLD for only three payments of $29.99? Normal people who can't sleep are so irritated they take it out on the Internet.
Ha, ha, you made my laugh so hard, my tea went up my nose. THEY seem to congregate at.......THAT TIME OF NIGHT. Something is.......totally amiss....SOMETHING is in ..........THE AIR......
I think it's a combination of things. Traffic online is lower at that time, so it's the perfect opportunity to deploy automated systems that might take a lot of resources to run. Human spammers may be in parts of the world where the hour is more reasonable, and may also know that moderators in the US won't be online at that time.
I assume it's because the moderators went home for the night. Plus, with less users online to report them, their spam gets to remain visible longer. I noticed that they do the same thing on weekends. The Q&A gets dangerously bloated with spam on Saturdays and Sundays, I assume, because most of the HP staff is off of work.
Or it is the day shift in India when they come on line.
Or the automated scripts on American servers are kicking in after midnight to 4 AM reboots (common in IT because few people using your systems then) to send out spam.
by seicheprey 12 years ago
So, evidently this was booted off the questions, and thus I repeat it here: does anyone else get up in the middle of the night to write?
by Rosemary Amrhein 13 years ago
Why does David Allen Bouchae say that on 106.7 everynight? LolWell it is now. How many are you are usually up at this hour?
by Grace Marguerite Williams 7 years ago
Why IS 3 A.M. sometimes known...........as THE WITCHING HOUR or better YET THE DEVIL'S HOUR?
by Grace Marguerite Williams 9 years ago
What words would you use to describe THE WITCHING HOUR without using the actualwords?
by Phil Plasma 12 years ago
What time do you normally go to sleep at night?I used to go to bed at around 22:37, but since I started hubbing, I've been hubbing after that up until 0:49 or so.
by Trudy Cooper 9 years ago
Hi Hubbers,I am curious as to how long you would spend from start to finish on any particular hub, do you set yourself an amount of time to spend on it? Would you spend longer than one day on one hub?tlcs is curious!
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