[shanenin]

It is kind of interesting, I wonder why most spam bots decide to leave posts in the modding section. What ever algorithm they use must determine that is a prime spot

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maybe they leave them everywere, I just notice them more in the modding area.

This post has been edited by shanenin: 23 September 2006 - 11:41 PM

[Besttechie]

They tend to target particular forums at a time. It used to be Open Chat and now its the Modding forum. You have to remember the admins/mods are not always around to remove spam as soon as its posted, but we always remove it as soon as we notice it. Also, staff does have certain mod privs in some forums, so if you do have mod privs in the forum that has spam feel free to move the spam post to the trash bin and notify a admin/mod about it and we'll take it from there.

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[Matt]

Also another note. It is probably not bots, but people posting "canned spam" (no pun intended). That's where the person can just go and grab some text and copy/paste it. Unless bots can now get around the image verification upon registration, its probably people.

[Besttechie]

 Matt, on Sep 24 2006, 11:05 AM, said:

Also another note. It is probably not bots, but people posting "canned spam" (no pun intended). That's where the person can just go and grab some text and copy/paste it. Unless bots can now get around the image verification upon registration, its probably people.

Yes, Matt is absolutely correct. We have come to the conclusion is it most likely people with those "canned spam" (again, no pun intended) posts ready for copy and paste.

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[Bubba Bob]

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"canned spam"

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That gave me a laugh this morning.

[shanenin]

sure, I bet image verification would be very hard to get around.

[Chappy]

 shanenin, on Sep 24 2006, 07:24 PM, said:

sure, I bet image verification would be very hard to get around.

It is. That's why this has to be People and not Bots IMO. AFAIK, nobody has made a bot that can read the image and respond correctly to it, since the fonts used are not commonly recognized.
I've even had some that I couldn't read myself sometimes, and had to re-register to get to one that I could read...yeesh!

[Besttechie]

 Chappy, on Sep 25 2006, 12:06 AM, said:

I've even had some that I couldn't read myself sometimes, and had to re-register to get to one that I could read...yeesh!

I've had that happen to me as well.

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[shanenin]

 Chappy, on Sep 24 2006, 11:06 PM, said:

 shanenin, on Sep 24 2006, 07:24 PM, said:

sure, I bet image verification would be very hard to get around.

It is. That's why this has to be People and not Bots IMO. AFAIK, nobody has made a bot that can read the image and respond correctly to it, since the fonts used are not commonly recognized.
I've even had some that I couldn't read myself sometimes, and had to re-register to get to one that I could read...yeesh!

I get kind of panicky sometimes, "What if I can't read it". Yes i'm neurotic.

[Chappy]

LOL!!

Good....I'm not the ONLY one then eh..
I have excellent vision too (20/16 now, and I was 20/10 most of my life), so if I have trouble reading those things sometimes, you KNOW they're tough to read period...

It's some "Pay-per-Click" kinda deal with Commercial spammers, so they saturate everything that's popular and hope some idiots are unwary enough to go click some of their links. It's most likely $0.02 to $0.05 per click so to make any money they have to get some serious spamming done.

[snyper]

I HATE BOTS! AND SPAMMERS! GRRR, they post on the forum with adverts for all types of crap, i just delete tho posts on my forum.

Do you guys delete the member aswell?

[Matt]

The member is not "deleted" but is permanently banned.

[Besttechie]

And I'd like to clarify the posts aren't deleted, they are simiply removed and put in the "Trash Bin".

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[snyper]

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The member is not "deleted" but is permanently banned.

Why not delete?

[hitest]

 snyper, on Sep 27 2006, 03:58 AM, said:

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The member is not "deleted" but is permanently banned.

Why not delete?

We don't want them to be able to come back again, and a ban prevents them from showing up here.