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Xkeeper Posts: 3673/5653 |
I usually put funny tags on suspicious images, have you not learned that yet? |
Sukasa Posts: 1697/2068 |
Never thought of that |
Radiation Posts: 110/119 |
I don't do theories. I do things... that are... true. Yeah.
Funny alt-tags are awesome, you should try them sometime. |
Sukasa Posts: 1694/2068 |
So approximately 2.83333333333333333333333333 hours until DOOM by your theory. |
Radiation Posts: 109/119 |
Hey, I just want to say that the spambot-defeating thingy with the Homepage is ingenius and super-effective against spambots, apparently.
Also, what's that big number that's slowly lowering itself? [edit: nevermind it's just the fourth doomclock everyone just ignore it] |
HyperHacker Posts: 3315/5072 |
I fear if it gets well-known, bot writers will code around it and it won't work anymore. |
Xkeeper Posts: 3672/5653 |
Originally posted by Emptyeye Well, it's either /. or Digg, so you either get nazi editors or buddy-buddy users. |
Emptyeye Posts: 689/869 |
You know it'll get rejected by /. without some type of anti-Microsoft, pro-open source spin on it, right? /. being what they are and all. |
Xkeeper Posts: 3671/5653 |
I'm going to throw a party at 1000 (and probably submit it to /. or something after writing up a quick "how-to" with some examples)...
...looking at it it doesn't seem like it'll be very long |
Bane King Posts: 107/116 |
IDEA!!!!!
Heee wouldn't it be funny to get paid to do that to fireboard. Yeah...if I knew how...I would just for the hell of it |
Tarale Posts: 2047/2713 |
Originally posted by Bane King Yes, they get paid for this. And in the event that a bot can't do the work, there are people who get paid to manually spam on forums and such too. |
Milly Posts: 47/145 |
I guess the bots can figure it out by looking for input fields and textarea boxes, and common input names ... but they still have to find the page for posting, trying every link wouldn't work too well
I wonder if there's a way to confuse them by using random meaningless names or switching them around ... or maybe if you use the invisible field trick for posting too, in case they don't get fooled when registering ... I also noticed they've posted polls that don't make much sense |
spel werdz rite Posts: 1522/1796 |
Wouldn't it be fun to go to an online gambling site, register, and say "Hey! I just got a shot at playing this new hack of Super Mario World on the latest version of ZSNES for Windows!!!! If you wanna try this out yourself, you can come here and play as long as you want for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"? |
||bass Posts: 452/594 |
Originally posted by windwakerWe aren't really. Most of them (bots) are generic enough that you can just change a few variables and they work with any random board. |
windwaker Posts: 213/235 |
Originally posted by Prince KassadOriginally posted by windwaker Yeah, but I was unaware that the Acmlmboard was popular enough to even warrant a programmers time to build into a spambot. |
Bane King Posts: 105/116 |
Forgive me if tohis is a n00b question but why do people do that?
Do they get paid to say Come play my free online poker? Cuz I could think of 1000000000000000 more things to care about other than some lame ass poker game. Well. anyways, Glad to see they arn't here. Keep up the supurb work guys |
Darkdata Posts: 620/983 |
Originally posted by Ailure I agree In so many ways I agree. |
Ailure Posts: 1822/2602 |
We could make some additional check that bans a user if their first post contains BBcode. True it might cause some false positives, but I yet have to see a serious member whoose first post contains BBcode... that we don't use. :/ |
Bloodstar Posts: 380/669 |
Zcf was attacked by spambots a month ago. About 100 accounts had been registered.
Fortunately, a simple query wiped every single one of them. |
HyperHacker Posts: 3310/5072 |
I think most of the time they look for commonly-used field names like title, post, etc and fill things in automatically. That's why you see a lot of bots doing dumb things like putting their subject in the Custom Thread Icon field or using BBcode that doesn't work here. |
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