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That's nothing. You should see the ones that post 30.
Of course, I'd rather have those spambots then 30 1-posters. Cleanup is a lot simpler the first way.
Yeah nine posts count for nothing when banning just wipes all the posts at once.
Only thing to be vigilant about is that they don't hit 50+ posts.
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I'll be honest, not nearly as enticing as the fabled "puff-puff" in the Dragon Quest games.
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I don't know why these spambots are bothering. :P
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I don't know why these spambots are bothering. :P
It's because it's so satisfying. Hell worst comes to worst we can become an organisation that outsources our members to other forums and exist solely to wipe bots from the world.
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I don't know why these spambots are bothering. :P
You wouldn't want a forum full of spam bots malicious posts. Removing spam is every forum admin's job.
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Well I think he's a bot, he's off topic, his name is random and his custom title matches his first topic title.
But....he claims to be Santa...and he doesn't post links...
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Well I think he's a bot, he's off topic, his name is random and his custom title matches his first topic title.
But....he claims to be Santa...and he doesn't post links...
A spam bot that poses no malicious threat.
Hmph, I actually mistaken-ed it for a real user.
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Well I think he's a bot, he's off topic, his name is random and his custom title matches his first topic title.
But....he claims to be Santa...and he doesn't post links...
A spam bot that poses no malicious threat.
Hmph, I actually mistaken-ed it for a real user.
Well I think it's a bot.
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Then I remembered that no-one would be stupid enough to speak in German on an obviously English-language website.
We also had a legible advertisement in the wrong place... y'know, that kind of thing that is clearly a bot when you think about it but could pass for a legit-if-misguided user at first glance.
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I've checked the link it's...legit it does lead to jokes about the police though I would still avoid it to be safe and there were talks about Gumshoes salary as a joke.
It's possibly a bot with incredible coincidence or a member with poor grasp of grammar and English.
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I suppose the question is whether it's the spam part or the bot part that's the most offensive to the CR staff. Personally I figure no-one really wants adbots on their site.
I may be overdoing it slightly here actually on second thoughts: these really are so close to the wire that I'm not completely comfortable popping the BH but I'm still popping it. I'm going by experience here really.
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I suppose the question is whether it's the spam part or the bot part that's the most offensive to the CR staff. Personally I figure no-one really wants adbots on their site.
I may be overdoing it slightly here actually on second thoughts: these really are so close to the wire that I'm not completely comfortable popping the BH but I'm still popping it. I'm going by experience here really.
As you wish, I spotted it earlier and considered it. As it wasn't doing harm I just left it alone in the off chance it was a person and in the likely chance, a harmless bot.
Better to err on the side of caution
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EDIT: I'm starting to wonder how many are actually bots. It seems like they only post when there's only 1 or 2 people on who aren't mods (and maybe those of us with over 1,000 posts).
Another edit-6-26-12: Is it me or has the number of bots appearing dropped? I used to see at least one everytime I logged on.
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Its custom title is the same as its topic, and if you check its profile, the ICQ contact screen just shows that it supposedly works for an airline in Kuwait. Not to mention, it thinks that 'human' is also an occupation. (Yes, it could just be someone being cute, but bots will often list a strange value in a field while showing zero interest in the Ace Attorney series/video games/anime. Of course I don't include confused folks who really do think this is a website for court records.)
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Its custom title is the same as its topic, and if you check its profile, the ICQ contact screen just shows that it supposedly works for an airline in Kuwait. Not to mention, it thinks that 'human' is also an occupation. (Yes, it could just be someone being cute, but bots will often list a strange value in a field while showing zero interest in the Ace Attorney series/video games/anime. Of course I don't include confused folks who really do think this is a website for court records.)
Yeah bots get real funny about that occupation one. Earlier on I banned one that had "Real" as it's occupation.
It looks like a bot since they typically set age 25+ and the profiles are similar to other bot ones. I'd err on the side of caution since it'sd not advertising and therefore not really harming anything but it's your call in the end.
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Hahahahha too true.
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He/she/it probably won't post again, but I'll leave it up to the admins/mods.
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Good call bringing it to my/staff's attention though.
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Check this one out:http://www.forums.court-records.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=35000
He's got poor spelling and a linked advert in his title so bot right?
Then look at the one post he made.
On topic and relevant albeit generic and probably easy to do.
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Another one of these ultra-suspicious users. His profile and Sig contain an ad link for some TV website. His posts are close to incomprehensible and he double posted too.
I swear it is the 'bot owners' posting basic accounts with a basic grasp of English.
Is there any way we could limit sigs to people who accomplish say....20 posts even. Most Bots never manage that and it would prevent these suspicious types from dropping suspicious links in their sigs even if they post 'normally'.
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Very weird case. This is the first time I've seen them use one of our smilies. If I had to guess… I'd say (s)he's a human from one of those spam farms you hear about periodically. The IP is from India, which doesn't help defer suspicion. On the other hand, India doesn't make much of a blip on CR's activity. So, who knows what this is. It's not organized like Russia. It appears to be a lone user, at this point at least.
See if you can find India on the list of top 25 nations on CR. Bonus points if you can tell which list is for the forums and which is the main site.
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Another one of these ultra-suspicious users. His profile and Sig contain an ad link for some TV website. His posts are close to incomprehensible and he double posted too.
Well, we've got his 'cousin' over here, with a similar pattern for a username (but no sig URL), replying in the same thread. If anything, we can collect a third and then we'll have a complete set!
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