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    I've been noticing a huge increase in spam in webmaster forums. I noticed quite a few in the purged forum here, and I've banned 15 or 20 members over that past few days at iwebtool...I wonder why it comes in surges like that....

    Something strange, I haven't gotten(is that a real word?) any spam on my lost forum in 3 months...I guess it pays better to spam webmasters..

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    Jump,
    This is my expereince at my second webmaster forum as well, its terrible I think they target all forums webmater or now. UK Forums Link Exchange SEO Web Promotion & Webmaster Resources used to be a dedicated link exchnage forum, I took it offline because I was feedup with spammers (it was a phpBB forum fighting spam there was more difficult and time consuming

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    i think they use an automated software to auto post to forums. I have tried a software before call forumposter which mostly targets phpbb forums. i cant remember where i saved it.

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    I see, so this forum actually registers for you and post whatever you programm it to post?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gio View Post
    i think they use an automated software to auto post to forums. I have tried a software before call forumposter which mostly targets phpbb forums. i cant remember where i saved it.
    Its not hard with PHPBB, the script needs a re-write to be honest.

    But with vBulletin, I doubt these spammers use automated programs. I think they sign-up and simply spam the forum. Simply because they're aren't that many links over a long period of time. They come in nice tidy clumps. Which, let's face it, is better compared to a small dribble in my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by temi View Post
    Jump,
    This is my expereince at my second webmaster forum as well, its terrible I think they target all forums webmater or now. UK Forums Link Exchange SEO Web Promotion & Webmaster Resources used to be a dedicated link exchnage forum, I took it offline because I was feedup with spammers (it was a phpBB forum fighting spam there was more difficult and time consuming
    I get a lot of spam on my directory too, how is Habaa? I would assume with a high profile site like that, you probably get a lot of spam there too.

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    Absolutely Jump, I get an awful lot of spam in the hundreds at Haabaa. I am developing a new script that will power haabaa, spam filter is one of the areas I gave the most focus to in haabaa V2.

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    Yeah, at triphp since going to vb weve had a massive influx of spam.
    Ive decided to spend out on software to stop the automated spam.

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    I see, you mean you had less spam when you were on SMF ?

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    Oh yes...no question..i beleive there is a database somewhere with vb sites to spam!

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