[Coda]

Still mostly search engines. I would mostly imagine spambots don't generally browse threads before registering (it would just be a waste of processing power) and if they did they would probably target active ones. We WANT search engines to feel free to read our posts because it makes Trisphee more important in search results.

And really there's not much I could do anyway. If I told bots to go away, only the bad bots would be here (because the good ones would obey the rules). All I could do would be to take the guest count display off of threads, and that wouldn't actually change anything.

[Poggio]

XD thus far in my trisphee life I have reported two bots and that is about it. I am not sure how to tell a bot from a user until it post because Coda is right people have strange user names. You can't start a witch hunt ever time theres a new user. What do the bots do besides spam?

[Lauv Keiko]

One mod before told me that you can tell it's a bot if their profiles have links to never-been-heard-before products.

[Coda]

Mmhmm, product links and broken foreign languages are big clues (if a REAL Russian user registered here and put Russian in their signature it would be readable, not garbage). I also check e-mail addresses and IP addresses, which can SOMETIMES be pretty obvious.

[Lauv Keiko]

oh and also, most bots I see...have "dinneys" for their location >.> or even occupation XD

[Coda]

Yeah, those are easy to catch, we nab them whenever we see them.