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As this site gets busier so does the the spam attacks.
Unfortunately not every spam attack is as straight forward as starting a new thread saying Hello I am spam.
Types of attacks that are the more obvious 1s
Easy ones to spot
They will start threads sometimes just complete jibberish or they go into detail about something a popular 1 we get daily is how to convert video to iphone.
These 1s are quite easy to spot and deal with.
Sometimes you need to look twice ones
These spam bots will usually attack older threads and directly copy and paste previous posts on that thread normally they do this for 5 posts and then they will post a link to a spam site either as a new thread or on an old thread.
The medical web hosting spam on holiday ones
These Posts are usually dropping the name of some medical pill, web hosting sites or holiday planning sites. sometimes so subtle that you have to google the name etc.
Ok So what to do when Spam slips through the net.
Option 1 if it is a new thread started and you are unsure if it is spam maybe post a feeder sample question to them they usually do not respond if spam
if they dont respond or your unsure click the report button.
Option 2 If it is obvious spam click the report button more so if this is on older threads as we can come and delete the post and the forum goes back to new threads and current threads that are being discussed.
But when you comment after it when your all annoyed by it then that thread will stay at the most recent threads as you have bumped the thread therefore making the new threads go down and lost I know spam is frustrating but you responding to it on a thread is doing exactly what it wants your bumping it to the top of the threads for more people to see until a mod or admin deletes it. so under the Whats new threads after you have commented after a spam bot we can get threads that are 5 years+ old as bots attack the old threads more often.
If you want to talk to a bot then try and refrain it to new threads started by them and make sure you hit the report button
Unfortunately not every spam attack is as straight forward as starting a new thread saying Hello I am spam.
Types of attacks that are the more obvious 1s
Easy ones to spot
They will start threads sometimes just complete jibberish or they go into detail about something a popular 1 we get daily is how to convert video to iphone.
These 1s are quite easy to spot and deal with.
Sometimes you need to look twice ones
These spam bots will usually attack older threads and directly copy and paste previous posts on that thread normally they do this for 5 posts and then they will post a link to a spam site either as a new thread or on an old thread.
The medical web hosting spam on holiday ones
These Posts are usually dropping the name of some medical pill, web hosting sites or holiday planning sites. sometimes so subtle that you have to google the name etc.
Ok So what to do when Spam slips through the net.
Option 1 if it is a new thread started and you are unsure if it is spam maybe post a feeder sample question to them they usually do not respond if spam
if they dont respond or your unsure click the report button.
Option 2 If it is obvious spam click the report button more so if this is on older threads as we can come and delete the post and the forum goes back to new threads and current threads that are being discussed.
But when you comment after it when your all annoyed by it then that thread will stay at the most recent threads as you have bumped the thread therefore making the new threads go down and lost I know spam is frustrating but you responding to it on a thread is doing exactly what it wants your bumping it to the top of the threads for more people to see until a mod or admin deletes it. so under the Whats new threads after you have commented after a spam bot we can get threads that are 5 years+ old as bots attack the old threads more often.
If you want to talk to a bot then try and refrain it to new threads started by them and make sure you hit the report button
I run vb, ipb, smf and mybb. I probably run 30 of them and will run more too 
Anyways, spam was always an issue so I started trying to methods... CAPTCHA is junk unless you custom make it. The reason CAPTCHA is junk is because its easily broken AND there are services and websites out there that will solve 1000 CAPTCHAs for $1.00 USD. Then that gets put into programs like xrumor which is where the majority of forum and blog spam comes from...
This blocks A LOT of spammers, it really works however, sometimes it will block real members and that is just the bitter/sweet part of that plugin. I would not enable username scanning with it though as it will block out a lot of real people...