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Story about Spam Robots
Topic Started: Mar 19 2007, 01:06 PM (1,935 Views)
Dan.-ZNS
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Almost one year ago, I created a forum to acompany a website in a website competition. After the competition ended, the forum was left, and after being bored in a lesson today, I decided to have a look at it. I was in the ACP fiddling around, when one of my friends who helped create the site told me that there were nine pages worth of members. I thought he must have had the members list on 10 at a time, but amazingly, he replied that it was on 50 members at a time!

Almost 420 spam robots had signed up in the space of ONE YEAR!

If the IF admins would like to know the board URL, please PM me. I can assure you that they are all spam robots. I have trashed all of their topics, and am going to mass ban all of their accounts.

I still find this quite amazing, that almost 450 spam robots found this forum and joined.

I now have to clean up the "Chit Chat" section, which contains 250 spam topics, all created by these robots.
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Deathstarr
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Some of them may be ppl just browsing and registered, as for the post ya spam bots do that.
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Dan.-ZNS
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March 19, 2007 05:42 PM
Some of them may be ppl just browsing and registered, as for the post ya spam bots do that.

I can assure you, they are all spam robots.
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Bluezone777
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spam bots will register at any forum that they are able to find and register an account on. some post spam topics in various forums while others don't post anything at all.

and activity of the forum has no bearing on whether or not they will join and spam your forum.
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DeltaOne
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Only 450 spam bots in the course of around 360 days?

You're lucky, that's less than 2 bots per day!
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Deathstarr
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Lol kk have fun cleaning it up..
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Zigamont
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I loved that story :D , anyway how do you know all were spam robots. Maybe they were just people, like on some skin test forums, theres a bunch of spamers that doesent mean that they are all robots.
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Invader05
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haha

yea...im not surprised...it could happen
but how you said it is funny
lol
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River.
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Dead forums get these the worst, it seems.
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Dyegov
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I do not seem anything amazing about this story. Just clean your site and that's it. I am happy Zetaboards has more protection against spambots ^_^
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Seifer44
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I've gone through forums, posted about... ummmm.... 75,000-100,000 posts on different boards over time (not spam btw, and I DO have a LOT of people who can vouch for me if someone doesn't believe me) since about ummm... end of 2003. I've never had a problem with spam bots personally except for the past 3 or 4 months.
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Dropkicksidekick
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Why havent I gotten any yet? My forum was created January 12th 2007.
I've been looking forward to the new member accounts. I think I would be able to keep it under control if it ever happened. I would get members and posts out of it.
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Daniel Talbot
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Dropkicksidekick
March 19, 2007 09:20 PM
Why havent I gotten any yet? My forum was created January 12th 2007.
I've been looking forward to the new member accounts. I think I would be able to keep it under control if it ever happened. I would get members and posts out of it.

You will start getting them eventually
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sdwe96
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March 19, 2007 07:48 PM
Dead forums get these the worst, it seems.

You are right. I know of a board that was abandoned over a year ago. It had 15 members and maybe 3 or 4 of them who posted regularly. The board had maybe 25 topics and 200 replies. It now has 629 members, 536 topics and nearly 82,000 replies, all spam. :lol:
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Daniel Talbot
March 19, 2007 09:23 PM
Dropkicksidekick
March 19, 2007 09:20 PM
Why havent I gotten any yet? My forum was created January 12th 2007.
I've been looking forward to the new member accounts. I think I would be able to keep it under control if it ever happened. I would get members and posts out of it.

You will start getting them eventually

Where your at never got them.
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