Definitely not. But recently various forums and other official .edu sites have been experiencing a terrible onslaught of not-so-subtle spam. If one wants to access reliable articles for research purposes, one will have a very annoying surprise in store for him, because the forums are brimming with obscure keywords, directing to shady websites.
The extreme spam wave is blatantly advertising various porn websites. Their titles display a colorful variety of types and genre, obviously eager to please a viewer with any kind of inclination. Just for the record, the examples of the spam include such keywords as: “free hardcore porn teens”, “Virginia teen model centaur porn pregnant twins” and “mother son x hamster porn free”.
There are also topics displaying various explicit content pictures and screen captures. These kinds of plain raw pictures make the user want to get out of the page at once, especially if he was searching for material on British National history and landed on a page with incest porn. Surprisingly enough, some of these spam pages also have a record of “thumb-ups”, which means that people have “liked” them. But it can be far from reality. Rather than actual people clicking on the page, it can be just another spam account “liking” a spam page.
The bottom-line of the problem is that the sites which are being targeted by this lurid spam are .edu websites and forums, normally used for sharing academic information. Most often, when people surf academic websites, they do mean business, and the encounter with numerous undesirable messages can have a rather displeasing effect. With the avalanche of the spam growing higher and higher, the .edu websites should take certain measures to get rid of this spam-run, because it might easily scare an average user away.