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Title: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: Zylos on June 04, 2011, 02:24:22 PM
Have you ever noticed that some members have blatant advertisements in their signatures for the oddest of products, or will flood certain boards with similar and nonsensical posts, or create new threads consisting only of already existing posts somewhere?

YOU'VE ENCOUNTERED A WILD SPAMBOT.

Spambots, as most of you should be obviously aware, are automated bot programs designed for the sole purpose of doing exactly what it sounds like: sending out spam. The reason I'm pointing this out is that we've had a large number of spambots get around our registration setup lately, and some members have a fond interest in starting up conversation with the spambot or about the spambot's post. This is a gentle reminder that they are not humans, nor do they have the intelligence to respond to you. In all likeliness, their posts are going to be deleted as soon as a moderator finds them. Therefore it is recommended that you do not start up conversation with them; it makes you look kinda stupid after the spambot's post has been deleted, if your own post isn't deleted as well.

If you find a spambot wandering about on the forums, please report its post (if it's not flooding the forum and making itself obvious) and generally ignore it otherwise. It will be exterminated taken care of as soon as possible.




This topic is brought to you by THE OBVIOUS, stating what shouldn't need to be said since the dawn of idiocy.
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: IAMFORTE on June 04, 2011, 03:49:00 PM

If you find a spambot wandering about on the forums, please report its post (if it's not flooding the forum and making itself obvious) and generally ignore it otherwise. It will be exterminated taken care of as soon as possible.


I d hope there is a reward for this, perhaps cake? or cookies : O or some other wonderful sort of baked goods : D
I'll keep my eyes peeled
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: Acolyte on June 04, 2011, 11:11:38 PM
So, we can't befriend them and make them our robot buddies and teach them to feel love? ;-;
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: strike on June 04, 2011, 11:19:22 PM
aww, but mom said I could keep t1000 if I fed and walked him. :(
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: Sophist on June 04, 2011, 11:25:44 PM
No. He pissed all over the carpet and now you get to take my shotgun and shoot him behind the shed.
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: strike on June 04, 2011, 11:37:52 PM
:baww:
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: pacdiggity on August 03, 2011, 08:08:30 AM
I'm loving the irony of a spambot attacking this thread.
And furthermore, the irony of me responding to it, especially in a topic created to discourage such an act.
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: Roph on August 04, 2011, 09:19:39 AM
Feel free to PM me a link (http://rmrk.net/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=273) to their profile or post(s), or poke me on IRC :)
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: firerain on August 10, 2011, 03:48:43 AM
^ irony
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: Holkeye on August 10, 2011, 03:51:07 AM
^ silvery
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: pacdiggity on August 10, 2011, 09:10:31 AM
^ mercury...y.
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: Sashikinaroji on August 10, 2011, 02:52:35 PM
Reporting Spambot...

Name: Bayard.


Nice try, clever-spambot, but you can't deflect the attention off yourself by making an anti-spambot thread. I know your game...
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: Dertt on August 12, 2011, 10:47:39 PM
Don't you just weaken it, and then throw a pokeball at it?
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: IAMFORTE on August 12, 2011, 11:27:55 PM
Some of the stronger ones need to be put to sleep. or shocked, or burned, the combonations are endless
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: Holkeye on November 08, 2011, 04:37:55 AM
You are having all the leisure, and not leaving any leisure for any of us to have.
Title: Re: What to do in case of a SPAMBOT attack...
Post by: pacdiggity on November 18, 2011, 10:13:21 AM
Oh the irony of spambots on this thread.