There are more spamb0ts than ever

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Ja!

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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
"Idealism is what precedes experience. Cynicism is what follows."

as it turns out the spambots are worse on phpbb3... i should have transfered the board to vanilla instead.

i just made some slight tweaks. hopefully they reduce the amount of spam being posted, but otherwise i'll have to look for more intelligence tasks for bots to do.

since i'm oblivious to the obvious, why are most spambots russian in origin?

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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
"Idealism is what precedes experience. Cynicism is what follows."

spammer haven. plus, a lot are just farmed out mechanical turk or proxies for link building, blackhat seo bitches.

There should also be a way to delete all those spammer accounts

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doesn't help much. this software platform is notoriously porous when it comes to spammers. the only way to curb them would be to approve everybody who applied as a member. i don't have time for that shht.

Better CAPTCHAs? Or are they using humans to do signups for these these days?

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it seems like most of the time the HIT's are actually done by people...

from their perspective, is spamming even worth it? (i.e. does it pay?)

those russkies should do what they do best and continue to give us the very best of gore (looking forward to a sequel of 3 guys 1 hammer )

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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
"Idealism is what precedes experience. Cynicism is what follows."

in terms of cash, [black hat] seo pays to the spammers but not necessarily for the client (at least not in the long term).

oh noes!

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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
"Idealism is what precedes experience. Cynicism is what follows."

yea, sorry about that. phpbb is the worst bb software EVAR!

added an extra layer of spam blocking. seems to be working for the most part.