We've had a monsoon of spambots this past week. Total inundation. If you sign in with a member account and you've never made a post, I strongly urge you to at least make an introduction. Longterm postlessness is a spambot red flag, and with the tsunami of spambots I've been whacking, I don't want you to get caught by mistake. Wrey
Also, random links to your blog that have nothing to do with your actual post content is a SUPER EXCELLENT way to get accidentally banned as a spambot. I do not have the time to look at every blog link with a fine-toothed comb right now. Until this wave is controlled, I STRONGLY URGE real members to NOT make posts to the tune of: Why yes, very interesting [bunch of stuff that addresses the actual thread], oh and by the way, here's my blog :www.myblog.com Don't do it. Seriously. Normally I would just edit out the link and send you a message as to why this is not allowed. Right now, amongst a sea of spambots, you may not get that courtesy simply for not seeing you in the crowd.
Worse. They're flipping their IPs in record time to perfectly pleasant little hamlets all over the U.S. and occasionally in Canada.
Don't new members have to respond to an activation email? Do you use capchas? I suspect a super-duper virus not nukes, will bring down the world eventually! Imagine a war where nobody turns up...
Captcha may have met it's AI match. Not that I think this is what's going on here. But it was mildly interesting, tangentially related and not worth a whole thread. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2058328/artificial-intelligence-startup-may-have-cracked-captcha.html
I think we need to take this into a private conversation before Cogito turns us into ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for counterfeit goods.
