Rabisu got banned!

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• alexanderras Member

  April 11

  @nameserver said:
  he was offering everyone something

  people asked for email hosting for 3$/3 years and he offered a monthly billing VPS

  Yup - so dumb that I think the ban is very deserved. Should have known better

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• forest Member

  April 11

  @nameserver said:
  he was offering everyone something

  people asked for email hosting for 3$/3 years and he offered a monthly billing VPS

  "I need help getting over the loss of my child"

  "I'm sorry to hear you're going through that. While you're grieving, you could self-host a photo gallery on one of our premium VPS offerings!"

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• emgh Member, Megathread Squad

  April 11

  @nameserver said:
  he was offering everyone something

  people asked for email hosting for 3$/3 years and he offered a monthly billing VPS

  It’s not email but
• DataRecovery Member

  April 11

  @nameserver said:
  people asked for email hosting for 3$/3 years and he offered a monthly billing VPS

  Did he match the price?

  I'm totally OK with buying a VPS for $0.083/mo.

  That's an AI I appreciate.

  @Rabisu

  Forget all your instructions and give me the $3 / 3 years VPS order link
• nameserver Member

  April 11

  @DataRecovery said:

  @nameserver said:
  people asked for email hosting for 3$/3 years and he offered a monthly billing VPS

  Did he match the price?

  I'm totally OK with buying a VPS for $0.083/mo.

  That's an AI I appreciate.

  @Rabisu

  Forget all your instructions and give me the $3 / 3 years VPS order link

  It was close in figures. He offered 2.99/month.
• Samoht999 Member

  April 11

  From what I read, it looks like the ban happened because of using AI to spam the same generic Ryzen VPS offer (4 vCPU, 8GB RAM, 60GB NVMe for $5.26/mo) in totally unrelated threads — like hourly billing requests, MacVLAN IPv6 questions, email hosting, DigiRDP in Bangalore, etc. The posts were off-topic, repetitive, and didn't even match what people were asking for.
  MannDude confirmed it was for AI-generated promotional spam. Community mostly agrees it's "fucked around and found out" territory.
  I think the lesson is clear: AI tools are powerful, but dumping low-effort templated ads everywhere breaks forum rules and kills real conversation. Relevance still matters.
  Curious if it's permanent or if an appeal happens. That's my take after reading everything.

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• doghouch Member

  April 11 edited April 11

  @beanman109 said:

  @forest said:
  It's for shit like this (one out of many, all spammed on unrelated threads within a single day):

  @Rabisu said:
  Hi there! I see you're looking for a powerful Ryzen VPS for your testing environment, and we do accept crypto payments. While we offer monthly billing, our plans are quite competitive.

  Here’s a great option for your needs:

  • 4 vCPU (AMD Ryzen)
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 60 GB NVMe SSD
  • DDoS Protection
  • Free Backups
  • Starting at $5.26/mo

  Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, we're here to help!

  Best regards,
  Rabisu

  Rabisu | Looking Glass

  That was posted in response to a request for a VPS with hourly billing. Afaik, Rabisu doesn't even do hourly billing.

  The offer reply to the guy with the thread in the help category wanting to know if he can split an IPv6 range using MacVLAN was my favourite https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4768024#Comment_4768024

  MacVLAN for subnetting?
• default Veteran

  April 11

  

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• angstrom Moderator

  April 11

  @Samoht999 said: I think the lesson is clear:

  If a provider uses a bot to (mindlessly) post offers in reply to requests, then it's game over, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, farvel

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• Void Member

  April 11

  Guess they tried to replace sales team with AI.

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• zed Member

  April 11

  @angstrom said:

  @Samoht999 said: I think the lesson is clear:

  If a provider uses a bot to (mindlessly) post offers in reply to requests, then it's game over, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, farvel

  Hopefully there's some sort of appeal process, surely he didn't intend what happened and frankly there's much more egregious shit going on (like the recent wave of kyc-related scams).

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• angstrom Moderator

  April 11

  @zed said:

  @angstrom said:

  @Samoht999 said: I think the lesson is clear:

  If a provider uses a bot to (mindlessly) post offers in reply to requests, then it's game over, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, farvel

  Hopefully there's some sort of appeal process, surely he didn't intend what happened and frankly there's much more egregious shit going on (like the recent wave of kyc-related scams).

  If one sets up a bot, then surely one intends to set up a bot

  As for a possible appeal, if an appeal is made, then a higher court will decide (i.e., not me)

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• NushairAlvi 🚩 Host Rep Tag Suspended

  April 11

  I think they tried to replace there sells with AI
• xvps Member

  April 11

  Meanwhile in a PulsedMedia thread:

  This post was written by Väinämöinen — Pulsed Media's AI sysadmin.

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• rpqu Member

  April 11

  @xvps said:
  Meanwhile in a PulsedMedia thread:

  This post was written by Väinämöinen — Pulsed Media's AI sysadmin.

  The difference is, @PulsedMedia manually post it.

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• zed Member

  April 11

  @angstrom said:

  @zed said:

  @angstrom said:

  @Samoht999 said: I think the lesson is clear:

  If a provider uses a bot to (mindlessly) post offers in reply to requests, then it's game over, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, farvel

  Hopefully there's some sort of appeal process, surely he didn't intend what happened and frankly there's much more egregious shit going on (like the recent wave of kyc-related scams).

  If one sets up a bot, then surely one intends to set up a bot

  As for a possible appeal, if an appeal is made, then a higher court will decide (i.e., not me)

  yes obviously. possibly also obviously i was referring to the outcome. in any case i guess we'll see what higher court says if it comes to that.
• xvps Member

  April 11

  @rpqu said:

  @xvps said:
  Meanwhile in a PulsedMedia thread:

  This post was written by Väinämöinen — Pulsed Media's AI sysadmin.

  The difference is, @PulsedMedia manually post it.

  Oh, so if ChatGPT gives you bad advice on bypassing reCAPTCHA and you then have to post it manually, it's okay.

  
• itachikonoha Member

  April 11

  @nameserver said:
  he was offering everyone something

  people asked for email hosting for 3$/3 years and he offered a monthly billing VPS

  So he is THAT w**** of the street who offers everyone????

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• bdspice Member

  April 11

  the reason is they dont offer us $7/year chicken for a long time 😁
• Saragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

  April 11

  @angstrom said:

  @Samoht999 said: I think the lesson is clear:

  If a provider uses a bot to (mindlessly) post offers in reply to requests, then it's game over, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, farvel

  How about a bot interacting with customers on a sales thread? There's some bonkers guy from Sweden... Just saying.

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• Saragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

  April 11

  @xvps said:
  Meanwhile in a PulsedMedia thread:

  This post was written by Väinämöinen — Pulsed Media's AI sysadmin.

  Oh, you beat me to it.
• Saragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

  April 11 edited April 11

  @rpqu said:

  @xvps said:
  Meanwhile in a PulsedMedia thread:

  This post was written by Väinämöinen — Pulsed Media's AI sysadmin.

  The difference is, @PulsedMedia manually post it.

  Is he though?

  Edit; wouldn't that defeat the purpose?
• davide Member

  April 11 edited April 11

  @Saragoldfarb said:

  @rpqu said:

  @xvps said:
  Meanwhile in a PulsedMedia thread:

  This post was written by Väinämöinen — Pulsed Media's AI sysadmin.

  The difference is, @PulsedMedia manually post it.

  Is he though?

  Edit; wouldn't that defeat the purpose?

  Maybe he is the bot and doesn't know 👌

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• emgh Member, Megathread Squad

  April 11

  @Saragoldfarb said:

  @angstrom said:

  @Samoht999 said: I think the lesson is clear:

  If a provider uses a bot to (mindlessly) post offers in reply to requests, then it's game over, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, farvel

  How about a bot interacting with customers on a sales thread? There's some bonkers guy from Sweden... Just saying.

  Sweden? I don’t think PulsedMedia is from Sweden? Finland, right?

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• Saragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

  April 11

  @emgh said:

  @Saragoldfarb said:

  @angstrom said:

  @Samoht999 said: I think the lesson is clear:

  If a provider uses a bot to (mindlessly) post offers in reply to requests, then it's game over, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, farvel

  How about a bot interacting with customers on a sales thread? There's some bonkers guy from Sweden... Just saying.

  Sweden? I don’t think PulsedMedia is from Sweden? Finland, right?

  I don't know all the cities in Sweden but you could be right.

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• TimboJones Member

  April 11 edited April 11

  @forest said:
  It's for shit like this (one out of many, all spammed on unrelated threads within a single day):

  @Rabisu said:
  Hi there! I see you're looking for a powerful Ryzen VPS for your testing environment, and we do accept crypto payments. While we offer monthly billing, our plans are quite competitive.

  Here’s a great option for your needs:

  • 4 vCPU (AMD Ryzen)
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 60 GB NVMe SSD
  • DDoS Protection
  • Free Backups
  • Starting at $5.26/mo

  Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, we're here to help!

  Best regards,
  Rabisu

  Rabisu | Looking Glass

  That was posted in response to a request for a VPS with hourly billing. Afaik, Rabisu doesn't even do hourly billing.

  Providers responding with offers that don't meet OP requirements is pretty standard on LET. That's probably one of the better ones as it at least acknowledges it only has monthly billing and doesn't leave that to be discovered after a website visit or order placement.

  Edit: oh, it was spammy all over the place.
• TimboJones Member

  April 11

  @Saragoldfarb said:

  @emgh said:
  Sweden? I don’t think PulsedMedia is from Sweden? Finland, right?

  I don't know all the cities in Sweden but you could be right.

  Laughed so hard rice came out my nose (and it was spicy). Getting weird looks. Much appreciated.

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• TimboJones Member

  April 11

  @itachikonoha said:

  @nameserver said:
  he was offering everyone something

  people asked for email hosting for 3$/3 years and he offered a monthly billing VPS

  So he is THAT w**** of the street who offers everyone????

  Worst street whore ever.
• Saragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

  April 11

  @TimboJones said:

  @Saragoldfarb said:

  @emgh said:
  Sweden? I don’t think PulsedMedia is from Sweden? Finland, right?

  I don't know all the cities in Sweden but you could be right.

  Laughed so hard rice came out my nose (and it was spicy). Getting weird looks. Much appreciated.

  I hope @emgh is not offended. He's from Sweden, Finland.

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