Maestro January 21!

Brent Unger · Post by **Brent Unger** » January 20th, 2012, 3:38 pm

Guess I need to come up with a "special reason" next time. :OP

Brad Hawkins · Post by **Brad Hawkins** » January 21st, 2012, 12:28 pm

Jessica, is there room for the spambot? That counts as a special occasion!

Post by **happywaffle** » January 21st, 2012, 5:08 pm

Brad Hawkins wrote:Jessica, is there room for the spambot? That counts as a special occasion!

I feel like a spambot would have a perfectly decent chance at winning Maestro.

Chuy! · Post by **Chuy!** » January 21st, 2012, 5:14 pm

Don't call me spambot, Brad. I have date night with the wife. Can't play...

Munga · Post by **Munga** » January 21st, 2012, 5:24 pm

I don't really get the purpose of the spambot..what does a programmer or hacker or whoever it is that creates these spambots hope to get out of posting on forums?

Post by **happywaffle** » January 21st, 2012, 5:31 pm

Munga wrote:I don't really get the purpose of the spambot..what does a programmer or hacker or whoever it is that creates these spambots hope to get out of posting on forums?

I believe the strategy is for the spambot to leave just enough messages that *seem* human until it's got a decent comment history. Then the spam-detecting software won't nail it when it starts posting comments that are actually spam.

But our mods are smart people, so that doesn't work on this forum, at least.

Asaf · Post by **Asaf** » January 22nd, 2012, 9:41 am

I believe the purpose of the spambot lies in the link that they embed in their post. The more links to their site from other sites, the better they rank on search engines.

Jessica · Post by **Jessica** » January 22nd, 2012, 10:39 pm

Actually I asked the Spambot to cast Maestro this week. So if you are pissed off blame it.

Post by **bradisntclever** » January 23rd, 2012, 10:33 am

happywaffle wrote:
Munga wrote:I don't really get the purpose of the spambot..what does a programmer or hacker or whoever it is that creates these spambots hope to get out of posting on forums?
I believe the strategy is for the spambot to leave just enough messages that *seem* human until it's got a decent comment history. Then the spam-detecting software won't nail it when it starts posting comments that are actually spam.

But our mods are smart people, so that doesn't work on this forum, at least.

Thanks. I try to delete most of the posts each morning, but I don't tend to check the site on weekends very often. Monday morning clean-ups can be hilarious.