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cameron
03-06-2007, 09:58 PM
I've been getting members on my site with an "iphone converter" signature. They make replies to topics that are a little strange, but seem like they could real.

The latest on is post #10 in this thread:
http://www.hdskate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2966

Is that a bot?
rpanella
03-06-2007, 10:36 PM
It would be a pretty sophisticated bot to post that response I would think, but it could very easily be a spammer that just registered and spent a few seconds making that post for some backlinks. In this case it would be hard to delete it because it could be a legitimate new user. One thing you could do is now allow signature for new members until they have 10 posts or so, which might slow down any manual spamming.
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cameron
03-08-2007, 06:36 AM
More users signed up and are making posts about that site. I've banned them all. They never talk about anything else.
Chris
03-08-2007, 07:05 AM
Spammers keep getting more and more sophisticated.

Eventually you just have to ban the entire country that they're coming from.
wxmansam
07-10-2007, 11:54 AM
It probaly was a bot.. bots these days are VERY advanced... i recently had something like that happen at my website and as fast as it happened it had to of been a bot.
Blue Cat Buxton
07-10-2007, 12:02 PM
Eventually you just have to ban the entire country that they're coming from.

Can you set up a site so you only allow access to certain countries?
Muggle
07-11-2007, 05:30 AM
Spammers keep getting more and more sophisticated.

Eventually you just have to ban the entire country that they're coming from.
That means losing loots of traffic. I wouldn't do this.