[hibernate-dev] new generation of spambots in forums

[Emmanuel Bernard]

Do you have admin levels (ie can delete the post)?
If not, then I think we should give you that.

On 21 déc. 2009, at 12:14, Sanne Grinovero wrote:

> Hello,
> since some months I've seen a raising rate of weird posts, like this one today:
> https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1001443
> 
> It looks like there's some clever bot agent, as the post makes
> _almost_ sense in the context but they always have a signature linking
> to some website as advertising
> 
> They're not very frequent AFAIK, still annoying.
> I'm thinking the goal for such a bot is likely to rise the pagerank
> than to make real advertising, also considering they're not very
> frequent. It could make sense to ban links in posts, forcing people to
> write them as text.
> Sad.
> 
> Sanne
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