I don't think it's at the point where we need to take drastic measures yet, unless the mods are deleting 100s of bot junk a day that we don't know about.

But isn't there some kind of Captcha verification? I can't remember. If so, how is that not keeping the bots out???

Cosmica wrote:I don't think it's at the point where we need to take drastic measures yet, unless the mods are deleting 100s of bot junk a day that we don't know about.

But isn't there some kind of Captcha verification? I can't remember. If so, how is that not keeping the bots out???

Some bot makers can program a Capcha solver into the bots program code, I've seen it before and it's very irritating.

Sparks wrote:Some bot makers can program a Capcha solver into the bots program code, I've seen it before and it's very irritating.

OMG I didn't think that was possible.

Also I just checked. We do have one but it's not the most sophisticated. They should install the one that looks like this that's more new, better, sophisticated, and less easy to hack (so I've heard):

I'm just glad none of these things are smart, posting a tinyurl or bit.ly address and saying it's a playthrough would probably get many clicks as opposed to none on the stupid spam threads.

A bot programmed for just gaming forums would be really bad...

Maverick wrote:I'm just glad none of these things are smart, posting a tinyurl or bit.ly address and saying it's a playthrough would probably get many clicks as opposed to none on the stupid spam threads.

A bot programmed for just gaming forums would be really bad...

I really hate the ones that have a bad URL like www.best+modephpvirus.co.uk
ANd you can just go 'Yep, thats a virus!'