This Is Getting Annoying

[Premier Alexander Romanov]

Has anyone noticed these random users spamming the forums every now and then with advertisement threads?
Don't we have some sort of protection against these people, and why is this happening just recently?

[Catterjune]

There are plenty of ways to stop spambots. Unfortunately, only YCMaker can impliment them. =\

[Catterjune]

[quote name='Catman25' timestamp='1302973690' post='5143132']
Apparently we have protection against bots:

[spoiler][IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/2rqbout.png[/IMG][/spoiler]
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If I recall correctly, spambots have been able to read and bypass captcha since early 2011.

[J-Max]

[quote name='PikaPerson01' timestamp='1302978046' post='5143310']
If I recall correctly, spambots have been able to read and bypass captcha since early 2011.
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It's true. I have a program called JDownloader that can Bypass Captchas from Servers such as Fileserve.

[Ieyasu Tokugawa]

[quote name='Cursed Reaction' timestamp='1302965136' post='5142696']
These aren't actual users. They're most likely advertising-bots. In other words, the result of programs that automatically create accounts and start making random threads. There's not much that you can really do about them as they will carry on coming but there are a few measures that mods can do. Why they're happening at the moment, I'm not sure.
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Because the mods can't impliment those measures, only the admins. You do the math.

[Catman25]

[quote name='PikaPerson01' timestamp='1302978046' post='5143310']
If I recall correctly, spambots have been able to read and bypass captcha since early 2011.
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So it's for lolz?

[Catman25]

Apparently we have protection against bots:

[IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/2rqbout.png[/IMG]

[Jake the Sage]

I have and so has a couple other members on the forum

While we DO have a policy against advertisment like that, there is really nothing even the Mods can do to prevent it from actually occuring- all they can do is ban the member and delete the tread once it DOES

The main reason they cannot prevent it in any way, shape or form is because whenever someone signs up to become a member of YCM there is no screening process. You basically walk up, give your username, password and e-mail address and get accepted. There is NO way for anybody, unless they're psychic, to know beforehand that any member will join just to make a advertisment thread.

And to answer your question, yes it is only happened recently. No [i]official[/i] reason has been given, but in my own personal opinion it is because of the web site jump; we've encountered a LOT more problems since the move than before . . . most namely the three day crash and the nonexistant 'My Contents' page. The reson I think this? Besides the obvious problems we already get? We are now connected to Facebook and Twitter in some way, which allows peopel to log in FROM said websites, so more people know about this places existance. More people knowing = more people likely to advertise spam.

Just report it if you see it, that is what I do at least

[.Rai]

Mods can delete and ban to tidy up the forum a little, but, as you said, only admins can deal with them with proper measures.

[.Rai]

These aren't actual users. They're most likely advertising-bots. In other words, the result of programs that automatically create accounts and start making random threads. There's not much that you can really do about them as they will carry on coming but there are a few measures that mods can do. Why they're happening at the moment, I'm not sure.

[Vezon]

[quote name='Catman25' timestamp='1302973690' post='5143132']
Apparently we have protection against bots:

[IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/2rqbout.png[/IMG]
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Good notice, it's easy to tell.
it says that because if it's a spam/ad bot, They will type the most readable way.
insted of:
stsanfo expect, it'll probly type:
stsomo expect.