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Spambots
« on: November 21, 2011, 09:17:37 am »
I mean seriously, half of the new posts are made by spambots, anyone wanting to do something about that?
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Re: Spambots
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2011, 09:54:16 am »
Yea, spambots charge forum last time a lot... Maybe if forum was updated to the last one version, bots would shut up. Here's already RC while there's full 2.0.1 available... :P

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Re: Spambots
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2011, 10:16:48 am »
Yea, spambots charge forum last time a lot... Maybe if forum was updated to the last one version, bots would shut up. Here's already RC while there's full 2.0.1 available... :P

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Re: Spambots
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2011, 04:04:48 pm »
I'm not going to rush him because we all know this forum wouldn't exist so well without him. I hope SMF developers have done something with those annoying spambots in the newest version.

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Re: Spambots
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2011, 12:31:50 am »
I deleted a couple of them over the last few weeks...
Wouldn't mind if there was some restriction to posting links or signatures with links or other places in the profile like 10 post link limit (you cannot post/add links unless you have 10 posts or more and when you do your post will be reviewed before it will be visible).

Something similar to that would be nice.
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Re: Spambots
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2011, 03:55:06 am »
Yea, but there's another better idea. All spambots change title of the reply while everybody use "Re: <topic name here>". If someone reply to some already created topic with new title of answear that means it's a bot! Of course script that would check it should also check its amount of posts...