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Post by The Future 2010-01-09, 23:41

How do you deal with these? I keep them for the member count but ban them so they can't log in anymore lol.
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Post by StevenF50 2010-01-10, 01:05

How do spam bots work on forums?
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Post by Shadow Sora 2010-01-10, 01:38

1. They make accounts.
2. They go into every topic, category, and post annoying (even bad) pictures and posts.

The only time I've ever seen one was when Chocolate invaded CPC.
He just posted these weird dots, and pictures of a weird dude in a Spam suit.

BCP told me that another came later and posted bad stuff.

I'm not 100% sure how to deal with them, other than IP ban them...
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Post by StevenF50 2010-01-10, 04:25

Yes but I meen spam bots just accounts that automatically make posts
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Post by Shadow Sora 2010-01-10, 04:29

I know. XD
They do pretty much the same thing, only it's worse...
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Post by airforce12 2010-01-10, 04:40

You could IP ban Email Ban and just Ban them
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Post by Shadow Sora 2010-01-10, 04:42

No, you don't want to go to their accounts. XD
They could have cookie/password stealers embedded in them.
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Post by airforce12 2010-01-10, 04:43

or just set activation to admin
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Post by Shadow Sora 2010-01-10, 05:19

^If they're hackers they can work right past that.

Trust me. XD
But it does work most of the time. Smile
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Post by COUGHCOUGH 2010-01-10, 08:33

How do you deal with these? I keep them for the member count but ban them so they can't log in anymore lol.
I think that they're kind of funny as long as what they post isnt anything bad then I wouldnt care.
I'd Do the same thing, when they're done. Same as ^^
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Post by The Future 2010-01-10, 10:06

StevenF50 wrote:How do spam bots work on forums?
Become a staff on my forum and go through the trashcan.
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Post by Ashley 2010-01-10, 13:51

They say that spambots can get pretty crafty. I haven't had to deal with one yet, though.
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Post by The Future 2010-01-10, 13:52

They have been able to change their mood on my forum. Changing it means having to go through the user control panel. They are becomnig more smart. Razz
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Post by 50cent 2010-01-10, 18:23

i never have this before.. lol
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Post by Snobothehobo 2010-01-13, 00:09

If you have phpBB3, you can block the GMT-12 time zone. That cuts down the number of spam bots quite a bit.
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Post by StevenF50 2010-01-17, 01:53

Well when they spam I turn off images let them spam when they're fnished ban them and move posts to basket I do not delete them thats just a waste of posts!
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