<![CDATA[Spyro the Dragon Forums / Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=14656 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:32:46 +0000 FluxBB <![CDATA[Re: Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430961#p430961 I should have said this ages ago, but what I actually meant was, have any bots actually got onto this forum? (Besides XRumerTest, obviously.)

]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:32:46 +0000 https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430961#p430961 <![CDATA[Re: Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430793#p430793 Eh, XRumerTest actually registered before the migration to FluxBB, so we wouldn't have had the bot blocking stuff yet. Some do still manage to get through though.

The XRumer Wikipedia page in its signature was pretty interesting I thought. I find it so weird that there's an entire industry around forum spam, and that anyone would bother making a relatively intelligent AI just for the sake of spamming.

]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2015 23:30:12 +0000 https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430793#p430793 <![CDATA[Re: Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430791#p430791 Sorry about the bump.

XRumerTest was a bot, and it was able to avoid the protection.

]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:04:48 +0000 https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430791#p430791 <![CDATA[Re: Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430282#p430282 That is ... a lot.

Honorable. o7

]]> Wed, 13 May 2015 19:54:20 +0000 https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430282#p430282 <![CDATA[Re: Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430251#p430251 Oooo, never realised that you are using a Honeypot protection technique yikes

]]> Tue, 12 May 2015 21:28:35 +0000 https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430251#p430251 <![CDATA[Re: Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430250#p430250 Oh yeah, we get spambots all the time around here. Generally they make threads with long paragraphs of nonsense text and a bunch of links. There's a filter that catches most of them, but some still get through.

Here are some statistics for bots that have been blocked in case anyone's interested:

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]]> Tue, 12 May 2015 20:56:07 +0000 https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430250#p430250 <![CDATA[Re: Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430248#p430248 There used to be many of them, mostly advertising stuff. Luckily, Stormy got rid of them big_smile

]]> Tue, 12 May 2015 20:54:19 +0000 https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430248#p430248 <![CDATA[Has Anyone On This Forum Ever Seen Someone Who's Clearly A Bot?]]> https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430247#p430247 I'm just interested, that's all.

]]> Tue, 12 May 2015 20:10:44 +0000 https://www.spyroforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=430247#p430247