Spambot retaliation proposal
 

After reading a post on this forum about spam on the internet, and following the recommended www.419eater.com link, I'm interested to know if anyone on here is willing to bait these spammers who have infested Subsim and, like a bad smell, have lingered and irritated everyone.

What do you think? :)

Who are the spam bots here on SS?

The spammers are under control. We have been systematically deleting their threads and banning their IPs. We only see one or two per week, and they are dealt with both quickly and with prejudice. This is to be expected on a forum as large and popular as SubSim, and the less time you spend on them, the better everything will be. Remember, they are here to get attention.

They're the people who join, post long threads in forums, then never return.

For example, the most recent one is in the Sub Command forum, the name is unitestore

Well ive never seen anyone before. I thought a spam bot was a person that just poated for the sake of it like posting in a thread and not saying anthing contrustive.

Those are spammers too, but the ones in question are corporate, as they are trying to sell something.

Especially since we changed the forum registration procedure in November last year (verification questions). Spambots really are no longer a problem here for the time being.

Ah i see you would have throught people would have better things to do with there time.

Hang on how much rope do you need to hang them all. ;)

Basically, we should lead them on a wild goose chase, make them run around doing things for someone who doesnt exist :P

It'd be hilarious to watch them scurry about thinking they've roped a $10,000 deal, then get brushed away :rotfl:

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I'm all for retaliation against Spambots, pity there isn't some kind of EM surge we can send to Spambot creating computers. :rock: