Whats with

[Pat123]

all the spam on these forums recently.. haha

 

[llwyd]

spam as in bots or spam as in idiots?

 

[Pat123]

Bots..

 

[FarFarAway]

I think you don't see the half of them

Seriously though, the bigger and more popular a site becomes the more you see rubbish like that

 

[Pat123]

ah fair enough.. i dont know why they do it.. do people actually fall for it?

 

[Pseudonym]

Depends on the scam. I doubt they get huge amounts of business from all the spamming, but it doesn't cost them much in time, effort, or money.

 

[JN]

We should be able to get this sorted with the next update of vbulletin. Once that's been implemented, people will be asked questions only humans can answer in order to register.

tbh we should just block the ip ranges for the countries that do this sh*t.

 

[Pat123]

I would agree jim, but then i guess you woul annoy a few people whom want to use the site legitematly

 

[Pseudonym]

Looks like we have a happy little spam bot on now. Just saw it spam 7 topics (and counting). Hope it calms down, I was getting excited about early morning posts.

Reported one of its posts, but all his posts are ads for something i don't even have the font for.

Edit: It seems to have given up at 20 meaningless posts. How gentlemanly...

 

[Brooksie]

The font is Japanese. At least I think so =P

 

[Ham]

Don't think ive ever seen so many reported posts...

 

[Pseudonym]

I assumed it might be, but it's just question marks for me. Should probably download a language pack.