Spambots
Aw. Well that sucks.Gonic wrote:Yes. But there obvislously getting past it somehow
- Quills on Wheels
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No, they're not spambots just because they haven't posted much.
As I said on IRC/Twitter, they're probably just old accounts that have been left active on the forum, but they haven't posted yet. On my vBulletin forum, I had a bunch of them just sitting there doing nothing, so I left 'em alone, but on there we've suddenly had a surge of activity from them too.
One way to tell if they are spambots or not when they register is to paste their email address in Google, if they are spambots they'll come up on spam check websites, so you can pre-emptively ban/remove them. If they have a weird username, or put information in their profile in places it probably shouldn't be (Like setting their Gamertag as their country, etc) then that can be a indicator too.
As I said on IRC/Twitter, they're probably just old accounts that have been left active on the forum, but they haven't posted yet. On my vBulletin forum, I had a bunch of them just sitting there doing nothing, so I left 'em alone, but on there we've suddenly had a surge of activity from them too.
One way to tell if they are spambots or not when they register is to paste their email address in Google, if they are spambots they'll come up on spam check websites, so you can pre-emptively ban/remove them. If they have a weird username, or put information in their profile in places it probably shouldn't be (Like setting their Gamertag as their country, etc) then that can be a indicator too.
- Quills on Wheels
- Level 15
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- Joined: Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:08 pm
- Location: Land of Down Under
- Quills on Wheels
- Level 15
- Posts: 4452
- Joined: Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:08 pm
- Location: Land of Down Under
Your nickname isn't specifically... unique, to say the least.
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