Time for you people to...

[Mecheon]

Get a lesson in how bots figure out which forums to spam

By posting in a spammed topic, they then figure that this board is alive

Figure out what comes next

 

[operator]

The hive has an ''anti bot'' thingie in the registration progress

 

[brad.dude03]

Not any more as it was removed after months of bot free goodness. It seems that somehow the merging og the Hive and Wc3Sear has brought bots on us once again, all that is needed is to reinstate the question for a while... and better yet: make it so that it denies them the ability to register unless it is set at No, and it is defaulted to Yes, so they can't just auto go through the registration process. This will stop them forever, because bots are only accustomed to using the default registration process.

 

[operator]

Or to get and an email to complete the registration

 

[Dr Super Good]

Techinally it would be simpler for the bots to look at and analise the current people online box every 15 minutes to see how active a fourm is since that will give a much better result than seeing the number of posts spammed in their thread. . .

Their are also special detection methods that can be used to find bots.
Advertising bots tend to spam 75% of their text posted as links and if you combine that with a detection method seeing how many post they have previously made (0 in most bots cases. . .) you can deny that post and thus NO ADVERT BOTS!

The down side to this method is that it is highly process intensive (well compaired to how it is now) and so might lower server speed. . .

Just bring back the question since I KNOW people will post 1000 reasons against everything I say when it comes to bots.

 

[Rui]

Well, it would be great to prevent bots from registing. But while they can acess the site, Rui the Bane of Bots is here to protect it.