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Originally Posted by suemarkp
Both are good sugestions. We could also have the user enter what text he sees in an image. Most bots can't recognize characters in a JEPG, yet.
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Better yet, retype a word that best fits a random question. I see that format on a site I belong to that works quite well and stops script bots real quick.
I seem to do a lot of behind the scenes moderating on this site lately due to the influx of spam so often here.
I seem to catch it by chance before the other mods catch it sometimes which doesn't bother me at all.......but I do know that this constant hammering of the site indirectly kills member participation and aggravates the current members in the normal activity.
I posted some really good remedies to this problem that will work.....in regards to spamming.
This same sort of thing literally killed stemdoctor.com
As far as I know.....the owner of that site has decided to not have a forum anymore as a result of how much trouble he had with spamming. Vbulletin has software patches to stop this, along with visual confirmation.
Disabling html won't stop these bots; it'll just show the huge html code all written out......still causing a problem.
They're coming here soley because of keywording......one example was that one post in regards to finding out who it was on a missed call in the telephone forum.
Certain words like any forum was how that came about. Anyone can keyword into a search engine and draw a 100 pages of content, then set the parameters to follow Vbulletin software vulnerabilities and push the go button.....the rest is basically auto pilot and they don't care if they get banned or not. It's not human so it doesn't know or have feelings.
For every 1 that gets banned or removed, one or two remain somewhere on an unkept forum, the web crawlers scour these sites for info since they are so much in competition with each other to have the most.....then it logs into a search engine return.
Someone looking for product, keywords a general term or termage, search engines yields results and either finds the product link or site it was put in.
Sometimes that is a good thing, sometimes that's a horrible thing.
#6 #7 < These are still live linking to this site, thus the reason it shadows and brings "other" bots to this site knowing it's an open channel that allows scripting.
It's one big advertising machine that has more ins and outs than all of us combined can even fathom. Internet is big business and getting product to show up in your face on keywording search engines is what and why they are doing it.
