Nobody else wants to bother asking, so I'm going to be the one who did. This would also be a good time and place to discuss any reasons why you can or cannot and what to do about it.
AGN staff: block the adbots from registering, please. Thank you.
The thing is, most of the ones we're getting these days aren't bots. They're people getting paid to spam forums.
We can't really stop them from registering, but maybe we could automatically put new users with links in their signatures on moderator preview, or something like that. That'd probably require a vBulletin mod, though.
Saffith wrote:The thing is, most of the ones we're getting these days aren't bots. They're people getting paid to spam forums.
We can't really stop them from registering, but maybe we could automatically put new users with links in their signatures on moderator preview, or something like that. That'd probably require a vBulletin mod, though.
This. It seems that each ad-"bot" puts links in their sig, so this would prevent that activity from appearing significantly.
Old-skool wrote:Nobody else wants to bother asking, so I'm going to be the one who did.
Really? We have been talking about this off and on, at length, for months now and now you think you will lead the charge against spammers?
This thread is just more spam.
-mercy.