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What do spam bots do?
09-21-2006, 02:26 PM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,913 Location: Australia  
| What do spam bots do? They don't seem to be doing anything on my forum, i was bored and let one in. they hav'nt done anything or will they? bah stupid fools.   | ||||
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09-21-2006, 04:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 54 | Well they spam  My old forum was spammed a lot by bots, and nothing I did could stop them. | ||||
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09-22-2006, 12:54 AM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,913 Location: Australia
| they havn't done anything but register, i think its because i got i got email validation and admin approval at the same time. btw hey Hypnotic, long time no see.  | ||||
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09-22-2006, 09:23 PM
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 Title: Groupie
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 30 | I welcome all spammers because i feel that were all created equal anyway one of the member posted the same message 100 times across my forum while I was gone they re was some cleaning up to do   | ||||
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09-22-2006, 09:31 PM
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Title: Just keeping it real
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,856 Location: Kent, WA   
| I have had some join and also don’t do anything. I do have them in moderation “mode” so just in case they post I can control it. | ||||
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09-22-2006, 11:33 PM
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 Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 264 Location: Earth, The Federation
| hmm, I really want some posts on my forum, how do I get them to my forum? 
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09-23-2006, 12:04 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,623 Location: Holmfirth, England
| Post Exchange with a member on here, then they will be quality post, not something like Quote:
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09-23-2006, 02:00 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 54 | Spam bots are crawling my new forum too. Yesterday I removed the image verification code on register, and got a bot registered immediatelly that started promoting porn sites, so I put it back again.  | ||||
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09-23-2006, 02:07 AM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,623 Location: Holmfirth, England
| Yes, porn is there specialty it would seem I have Image Verification, and a hack which adds a question that you set yourself. (vBulletin Only, thread is here Stop Spam MOD)
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09-26-2006, 01:33 PM
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 Title: Apprentice
Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 182 Location: South East Wales | Quote:
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