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Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:50 am
by Gonic
Yes. But there obvislously getting past it somehow
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:52 am
by Kraiola
Gonic wrote:Yes. But there obvislously getting past it somehow
Aw. Well that sucks.
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:09 pm
by Gavvie
Oddly enough, yeah. The bots were getting through it, which is a baffling thing to say the least.
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 8:25 am
by Quills on Wheels
Can you call people that have only posted once or twice, spambots too?
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:25 am
by Kaito-kun
Biggest sonic fan wrote:Can you call people that have only posted once or twice, spambots too?
Nah, only if they were trying to sell something. The folks you describe are usually either people who signed up to make requests or people who just lost interest in the site.
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:29 am
by Tru
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.
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:21 pm
by Quills on Wheels
That other BiggestSonicFan is driving me mad...
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:35 pm
by Gonic
He wasnt a spambot :/
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:37 pm
by Quills on Wheels
Yeah I guess...
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:32 pm
by Option
Your nickname isn't specifically... unique, to say the least.