thank you. Your site is the best! I like it!!!
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i don't think its a bot cause there not trying to sell stuff and not advertising anything.
MasterPhW
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Some of the last 20-30 bot post wasn't advertising or anything like that and ET has a lot botattacks lately.
AND I've seen the same message on another site today!
Agozer
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Uh no. Forum spambots that register and post with nothing to "sell" have been on the rise for quite some time now. You can easily detect a bot by looking at the manner it posts.
The most clear indication of a bot is when they register and make an extremely generic post such as this one, where they praise whatever forum they registered in with a generic quip of "your site is very good/helpful site" somewhere in there + "sorry for offtopic". Also, more often than not, the bots go through the structure of the board and specifically post in the section that has the word "General" or a variant of it in its name.
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Yup, and if you put the text of the post into google you'll get dozens (maybe hundreds) of hits. Still can't figure out what they're meant to accomplish though...
yeah whats the point of a bot if there not advertising anything and just making random posts. why would they do that?
Toasty
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Perhaps, after the bot has posted in several sections and after people forget all about its threads, it updates its signature to include spam. That way, no one really notices the spam, but when search engines refresh their caches of the forum's pages, the spam gets a lot of search hits. Just a guess.
MasterPhW
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Yeah, that would really make sense.. it's like the bot, that created three totally confusing posts without much information and short time after, he had a (hindi?) signature, with (probably) some advertising!
Xtreme2damax
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That or it's programmer is just testing it to see if it works and then later implement/add that dreaded advertising crap and viagra or pharmaceutical links.
Just think of bots without advertising as test scripts to verify it works.
I just wish someone would make it so bots can't bypass the registration process for forums so they would be indefinitely stopped dead in their tracks when trying to register an account.
That or it's programmer is just testing it to see if it works and then later implement/add that dreaded advertising crap and viagra or pharmaceutical links.
Just think of bots without advertising as test scripts to verify it works.
I just wish someone would make it so bots can't bypass the registration process for forums so they would be indefinitely stopped dead in their tracks when trying to register an account.
yeah someone needs to add the boxes with wavy letters or somethin to stop bots as they sign up.
then why doesn't someone put those in where you sign up cause even if it doesn't stop all bots it will help the mods from deleting like 50 bot threads.
Maybe because sometimes captchas are hard to read even for humans, and nearly impossible for people who are blind or close to it
lol ur right i do type in the wrong letters alot on these and i have pretty good eyesight.
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