No!

[Twilight Wolf]

Nope, there was another one that happened a few hours ago, and two more late last night.

[DW]

Gamefreak's looking into updating the forums again.

[cacturnerules]

there was another one that happened a few hours ago, and two more late last night.

man, I keep missing all the fun...


AND: i think we've got another one. it's logged on now, advertising some type of pill.

[darkphantomime]

Make that six. I just deleted another bot thread. THey seem to be attacking the announcement section for some reason.

[cacturnerules]

ha, i saw it first.

[Twilight Wolf]

Why hasn't "Soon new year!" been deleted?

[darkphantomime]

Well, it's gone now.

If another shows up, say so in this topic, do NOT reply to it.

[cacturnerules]

wait, why can't we reply to it?

[Twilight Wolf]

Your posts just get deleted anyways...

Perhaps this should be moved to General Discussion so it won't turn into a spamfest? It is *sort of* important, anyways.

EDIT: Thanks to whichever mod moved this.

[cacturnerules]

Well, ever since I joined in July, I've only seen maybe 1 spambot. Why so many all the sudden?

[darkphantomime]

because some spambots are so advanced, they can break through CAPTCHA

[Twilight Wolf]

Our CAPTCHA is a pretty weak, though... I posted about it in one of the spambot topics before it got deleted.

[cacturnerules]

no, I mean today and yesterday, there's been 6. Why ONLY the past 24 hours? was the CAPTCHA thing changed yesterday maybe?

[darkphantomime]

No, it's just the advanced spambots have found us. There'll probably be more along soon enough unless we upgrade the CAPTCHA.

[Twilight Wolf]

Do we still have email activation going? That's what prevented the old bots from posting. If we don't, we should reimplement that as well.