Think we have been spammed!!!

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jaoudestudios
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Think we have been spammed!!!

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F**king spam bots! What do they expect to achieve???

It is so annoying. I occasionally get spammed on my Web Dev Forum. I have increased the registration security, it has helped. Luckily I have not had any porn spam just the useless game WoW (World of Warcarft) posts, like...buy cheap gold....NO f**k off!!!

Do they really expect us to click on their links and be impressed?

Can we do anything to fight back? We know the IP of the spam bots, can we get lots of servers to DoS their server?
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I'm in the middle of install reCAPTCHA on this forum. As you may have noticed, we're suffering too.
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Chris Corbyn wrote:I'm in the middle of install reCAPTCHA on this forum. As you may have noticed, we're suffering too.
Cool.
Chris Corbyn wrote:As you may have noticed, we're suffering too.
That is why I made the post :P

But I am still curious as to why they do it? Just for fun? Because they expect users to go and visit their sites?
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jaoudestudios wrote:But I am still curious as to why they do it? Just for fun? Because they expect users to go and visit their sites?
Page Rank I assume. The more inbound links you can get, the better your search rank. It's annoying.
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Yes and it's just too easy to spam forums (or spam in any other way). Even if 90% of the spam posts are removed immediately, that 10% is worth it, considering the bots spam thousands of forums and blogs automatically
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It's too bad spam bots don't increase the affiliate marketing pay per clicks by clicking against the ads on my forums.
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I was wondering why our database server was taking so long to backup the other day.

When I looked, one of our miniscule sites (that happens to have a forum) had a database around half a gig in size.

I hadn't even looked at it for close to a year and one spambot was posting a message every minute or so.
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Ouch.

I monitor my forum multiple times a day, so I always catch issues pretty quickly :)
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I had the same thing with a gallery script. In the end had to dump the complete database including valid (human) comments, it was impossible to filter them, that was too bad.
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To try and avoid that issue, I have a cron that takes a mysql dump everything night and commits it to my svn repo (subversion). That way if I miss anything for whatever reason, I can roll back.
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