The Spam Catechisms...

[sandyRoe]

The spammer asks something like: ' Where can I buy a ..... at cheap price?' Soon after, a newbie to AB appears with an answer. Would somebody actually be paying them to do this?

[Old_Geezer]

Probably. Or maybe it's their own business.

[factor-fiction]

Sometimes the spammers just post a spam reply to their own question using the same name. Usually, however, the reply is from another 'new' user but it's probably the same one using a different name.
Some are promoting their own websites/products, but some must be being paid to do it for others.
There are companies that provide a service whereby for a fee they post thousand of 'likes' on youtube clips and facebook pages, and I wouldn't be surprised if they also got paid for posting links in order to push the site up the google rankings in some way.
But it does seem rather a waste of time on here doesn't it

[humbersloop]

have the Hare Krishna people gone now? They must surely have been doing devotional spamming

[sandyRoe]

Each spam posted saving them from from a revolution in the seemingly unending cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth.

[humbersloop]

it did feel a bit like a terribly modern prayer wheel

[sandyRoe]

Their beliefs may be rooted in the distant past but in the promulgation of them they're bang up to date.

[humbersloop]

maybe that's the sound of one hand posting?

[Baldric]

I mean, their ideas aren't so bad, but to be honest,
I simply could not wear Orange dahlings!

[sandyRoe]

but if a post falls in a forest of indifference where no one is listening does it make any sound?

[sandyRoe]

Half the population here in NI are much taken with orange. Though the wearing of it is mostly restricted to sashes and collarettes.