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Old 10-12-2012, 04:05 PM #1
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Default Loads of spammers recently...
Over the last week there has seemed to be loads Why is this? Is the site hotlinked somewhere or something? And they're not even popping up in the early hours like normally.
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There were millions making blogs until James sorted that problem out, so it's likely they have started using the forum more again
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There was something like 18 registering one morning last week at 5am!!
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Theres an anti spam website that the forum uses and it stops a lot of spammers from signing up, when that site goes down every now and then we get infested with them.
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A spambot is an automated computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam. Spambots usually create fake accounts and send spam using them, although it would be obvious that a spambot is sending it. Some spambots, however, can crack passwords and send spam using other people's accounts.
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I witness this on a number of websites... it gets more and more frequent but just report it, but usually mods catch it quick enough
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No point reporting them I don't think. The mods hunt spammers for sport.
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i think I have banned over 1000 spammers
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Banning them before they even post is double points
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Reported a few in my time just for the sake of it but yes the mods do catch them very quick
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How do they work? How does it sign up?
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How do they work? How does it sign up?
It's programmed to do it.
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Think a more rigorous sign up process with picture questions would do the trick, or captcha
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Most captchas are basically useless
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Tell me about it, the other morning I had to ban near enough 50 in an hour.
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There was something like 18 registering one morning last week at 5am!!
Yes, that was the day! I got rid of 10 and then another ten were registering all at the same time. This happened for nearly an hour.
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I thought I was popular today when I logged in and had 12 visitor messages. Sadly they were all from my new friend, Tiffany's Bracelet's or some such similar shi.te.
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Spambots make much more sense than some members we should keep some of them
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