There is nothing wrong with your view. They're really the latest topics posted. They're spam created by spambots/spammers.

brandon_g

azwiz wrote:I often see bots listed as being online . I thought they are harmless . Is a spambot different ? Or something of concern ?

Hi azwiz, 


The bots you are talking about are the search engine bots, indeed they are harmless and only wish to index (learn more about) your forum for search engines. The bots in question are different bots, very malicious and serve no purpose other then to throw their useless  spammy posts around the forum. They will appear as a registered user. You will know when you have one, based on the post and even most likely their email address which is usually verg long and has a ton of periods.


As for the suggestion at hand, I vote 100% yes. I hate spambots with a passion. Feature is needed.


As for what you said SLGray about them jumping onto our forums via the profile link, let them come, I have got an awesome, active staff that trained to deal with spambots and would find pleasure with dealing with them. Instanta ban! How we do it, then just move one of the posts to the dump and delete the rest. Spambot never to be heard from again. Bring it on spambot, me and my staff are prepared for anything and if its a war you want, its a war you'll get. You wont get that far though, our staff are VERY active . 


I see . This appears to be quite a problem . Good luck in the resolve .
  Now I still have to figure out why the codes for quoting are disappearing everytime I quote .

The above is a quote . With no mention of it .

Hi,

Yes, for some reason we've been getting hindi (?) spam bots on the forum. Hence the topics from your image. We've already made some efforts by censoring some of the content they post as you can see by "[Spam]" in the title. Unfortunately they'll continue posting until a staff member is online to ban them, and move their topics to the garbage.

Ok . I had to ask . Because lately I don't know why I am seeing or not seeing whatever in my forumotion site .
  Thanx