[Haos-EmilyMember]

I've been on many forums over the past years, and I have seen Spam destroy some good forums.If you look at the membership list of this site, you will find many members who have been a member for a while and have links to drug, porn, or cigarette sale sites. But haven't taken part in the threads.Those are the kind of members that are usually going to hurt a forum in the long run

They are bots, sometimes they don't post for a few months. Also, there are kids on this site, meaning it would be better of without the bots.

[mikael26288Member]

I have always seen bots on forums as a type of search engine. Such as GoogleBot and YahooSeeker and not as actual links you can click onto. Most bots only harvest email addresses from forums. But this forum might be totally different.

[Haos-EmilyMember]

I have always seen bots on forums as a type of search engine. Such as Google.bot and Yahoo.bot and not as actual links you can click onto. Most bots only harvest email addresses from forums. But this forum might be totally different.

Yeah, a few months ago, we had Russian Bots, i think that was the first harmful bot that we ever got...

[mikael26288Member]

I have always seen bots on forums as a type of search engine. Such as Google.bot and Yahoo.bot and not as actual links you can click onto. Most bots only harvest email addresses from forums. But this forum might be totally different.

Yeah, a few months ago, we had Russian Bots, i think that was the first harmful bot that we ever got...

Well the user "11seapywhense" still has a Russian porn site link connected to him. And members such as "#Online Investment" with an investment link, can't be here for Bakugan interests. LOL

[mikael26288Member]

Those links are listed under the “Website” block where people can list their websites. So I don't think they are bots. But I could be wrong.

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