02-26-2007, 01:42 PM
Quote:yeah!!i think some of the spams comes from bots.wonder how to counter that.:huh:90% of the spam comes from bots.
People have coded bots to go after almost all major forum softwares. They register emails at hundreds of different places, auto-register, auto-confirm, and post spam. There's no defense to this. People cite ideas of making it so people have to register for 2 days before they can post, but even if this forum software could do that, I'm sure it wouldn't stop the bots at all.
We can't ban by IP because they use wildly different IP addresses - in fact, they're likely running from virus-infected computers whose owners don't even realize they've been compromised. The Armory forum is their favorite target; not sure why, something in the bots' code does that. We can't ban by email domains because that would ban a significant portion of our legitimate userbase.
We ban users and delete posts on a daily basis. This creates a strain on our admins; it's annoying to have to clean up this crap day after day, but we do it.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.