What is a forum bot?

Forum spambots surf the web looking for guestbooks, wikis, blogs, forums and any other web forms to submit spam links to. These spambots often use OCR technology to bypass CAPTCHAs present. Text content is minimal, usually innocuous and unrelated to the forum’s topic.

Is bot spam illegal?

No. It’s your computer, and you can program it how you want to as long as it doesn’t spread viruses or malware. Build bots for gaming and the game company might kick you out of their game, but it’s not illegal, just against their rules.

What do spambots do?

A spambot is a software application that is programmed typically to distribute bulk spam messages to users. Spambots are capable of doing various malicious activities which include things like fake commenting on forums, collecting email addresses, showing irrelevant ads.

What is spam in a forum?

Forum spamming is the posting of messages that are either rubbish, abusive, a marketing gimmick or useless. Many forums normally set rules against forum spam, as these can be bothersome for other forum visitors and administrators.

How do I stop spam on forums?

1. Ensure links in your forum are set to ‘nofollow’
2. Make sure registration includes a CAPTCHA.
3. Require email confirmation.
4. Enable anti-spam plugins.
5. Don’t allow editing of comments after a few minutes have passed.
6. Get the whole community involved.
7. Be ruthless.
8. Restrict who can post links.

How do I stop bot spam?

How to stop bots from filling out forms? Best ways

1. Use a CAPTCHA.
2. Use a double opt-in form.
3. Add a test question to your form.
4. Add an unseen extra field or honey-pot.
5. Block Comment Spam.
6. Implement time-analysis.
7. Hide target request.
8. Form validation after geolocation of the IP address.

What is discord spam?

Definitions on what “spam” is can vary widely across companies, so let’s lay out how we define spam at Discord: The automatic or centrally operationalized creation or usage of accounts en masse to present users with undesired or malicious content and experiences.

Why do people spam forums?

Spammers target forums because they think that the pages in the forum will get crawled by search engines and the links in the spam posts will get indexed. Spam in forums is usually created by bots but can also be created by real people who can easily get past the obstacles put in place to fool automated bots.

How do I stop spam bots on forums?