Zombie/bot question

[CarolinePar]

is it me or are bots this sites' zombies?

:zomby:

agree?

or not??

[TerrorScribe]

Definitely... and it looks like we're being overrun. I think it's time to break out the axes, shotguns and flamethrowers.

[Dr. Briggs]

Make sure you don't ban-axe any legit members covered in barbecue sauce

/HideAndCreep :3

[FreddysFingers]

They are but have a cure, it's called Briggenol.

[NicoleMayCanaday]

And I bless this Holy water to fight evil & vanish the workers of satan back into the firey pits of hell
*chucks holy water balloon at Briggs*

[FreddysFingers]

Holy water balloon fight with Briggs on one side and the rest of us on the other!!!!

[CarolinePar]

wasn't there a song lyric to this effect

"will you hose me down with holy water - if I get too hot?" exdev:

[Bojangles]

I'm pretty sure I just owned the bots with my mighty cock power.

[FreddysFingers]

In other words, we're all doomed by bots.

[Dr. Briggs]

Well there are still a good number on the board, Bo; I don't think you stopped 'em from coming on altogether. I suggest you take Terrorscribe's suggestion and implement a Captcha type thing for new members so only real people can make new accounts.

[CarolinePar]

Well there are still a good number on the board, Bo; I don't think you stopped 'em from coming on altogether. I suggest you take Terrorscribe's suggestion and implement a Captcha type thing for new members so only real people can make new accounts.

is that one of those things you type a random word or something before submitting a post?

[Dr. Briggs]

is that one of those things you type a random word or something before submitting a post?

Yesindeedy.

[TerrorScribe]

Well there are still a good number on the board, Bo; I don't think you stopped 'em from coming on altogether. I suggest you take Terrorscribe's suggestion and implement a Captcha type thing for new members so only real people can make new accounts.

Yeah, might need a bit more than just CAPTCHA since they're still trickling in. Better to have new people just through a few hoops than to have bots. The next big issues would be to go through and delete the bot accounts. There's no point in gumming up the database with 15000 bot accounts. They're pretty easy to pick them out from real accounts. I, for one, would volunteer to help clean them out.

[Dr. Briggs]

Yeah, might need a bit more than just CAPTCHA since they're still trickling in. Better to have new people just through a few hoops than to have bots. The next big issues would be to go through and delete the bot accounts. There's no point in gumming up the database with 15000 bot accounts. They're pretty easy to pick them out from real accounts. I, for one, would volunteer to help clean them out.

I figured most were already deleted and those you currently see at the bottom were the result of not having Captcha protection for making new accounts :/

[TerrorScribe]

They still must be adding as fast as they're being deleted. We still have over 15000 members. :eek:

[CarolinePar]

:reddisgust:is there any REAL purpose for bots that "take over" a site anyway?

[TerrorScribe]

My experience with bot accounts on a forum is that they are there to spam the boards with ads. One of my friends boards got overrun with bots and there were literally THOUSANDS of spam posts. It wasn't fun cleaning that up. Also, as we've seen from a few of the bot accounts, they have links in their profiles. Get enough of these and when search engines come through, they don't see horror site, they start seeing links for porn and viagra. It's not pretty.

[KaptariMind]

Hopefully the spam zombie-bots are classic shamblers and not modern sprinters... It will give Bojangles's cock power more time to... uh... reach maximum potential.

New to the boards, and even I noticed the major jump in members since the first time I got on and lurked two weeks ago. How the hell do they do that?

[Dr. Briggs]

Hopefully the spam zombie-bots are classic shamblers and not modern sprinters... It will give Bojangles's cock power more time to... uh... reach maximum potential.

New to the boards, and even I noticed the major jump in members since the first time I got on and lurked two weeks ago. How the hell do they do that?

Robot powers man...

[FreddysFingers]

What triggered the sudden incline in bot members?