Recent Bots

[hallsofvallhalla]

I have been investigating and fixing how the recent bots have gotten in. Seems they are placed bots. They were manually registered and activated then the manual person picks topics based on the ad they want to push. Like website ad would go in website and show off threads ect..

I am working on fixing this, I think I have an idea to stop it. There hasn't been many that I have seen. No where near as many as I have seen on other forums lately. It is getting crazy how many are attacking forums. Even the big forums.

[Chromeozone]

Boop

[hallsofvallhalla]

Well my current registration tricks work really well. Matter of fact 99.9% effective. Problem is now the manual registrations.

[Jackolantern]

There isn't a great way to stop the manual registration that I know of. You have to let humans in, and if humans are getting the bots in, well...

Unless you have a trick up your sleeves, Halls

[Xaleph]

Bots still perform automated actions, which can be detected. Only human bots ( ie. real humans spamming ) are the ones you cannot stop. But even a manual registration, for a bot, will be automated at some point.

[Jackolantern]

True, but I just meant their getting through the gate. Detecting the actions of a bot can be possible, but difficult, particularly if the bot is not sloppy, and randomizes a timer for each action, paces itself, etc. If it just runs in and blows through every form in it sees in less than a second, obviously that one will be easy to swat