Our First Bot

[FatherDunlap]

Scott, we got our first forum bot this weekend. It's signed up for four usernames so far and posted a bunch of garbage in multiple forums. I banned the usernames and deleted their posts, but I'm not sure if there's anything else you can do to prevent this (like require approvals for new users?).

[Mark Itzero]

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=427852

[scott]

Ok, we shouldn't be bothered by the bots anymore. I changed the user registration to require an administrator approval, since this really isn't a public forum anyway.

Of course, the bots did provide some interesting commentary and links. Maybe they're not so bad after all.