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[Rejakor]

I'm just curious, but why the decision to go with 'minmaxboards' vs 'brilliantgameologists'?  People aren't necessarily going to make the link between the two things, especially once the old boards go under.

Oh, and what's the deal with the registration process?  Is that going to change or stay the same?  If it's going to stay the same, it could probably stand to be a bit simpler to work out what you're doing and why.  Doesn't have to be confusing to fool general-purpose bots, and if someone purpose builds a bot to spam the site they'll be able to get through regardless.

Some kind of multiple method captcha would probably be better for weeding out spambots.

[SneeR]

Why the name change? Because the Brilliant Gameologists haven't put up a new podcast in quite a while. These boards are more about minmaxing than about the Brilliant Gameologists. WHile they stand as the forefathers (+Meg) of minmaxing as we know it here, they do not facilitate much discussion here as of yet.

Also, I have only encountered 1 spambot on this site so far, so I would say that the process is going well. It wasn't that hard, was it?

[veekie]

One thing it definitely does is make spambots a lot easier to catch, because they cannot passively sit somewhere with links in their sigs or malicious code in their profiles. Once it comes to trying to post a decent looking agreement introduction, they almost always fail. So we delete them easy. There were more than that one, just that they get wiped before anyone else sees.

[Rejakor]

How do other boards/sites deal with spambots, then?  And malicious code inserted via 'quiet' bots?

Does just the volume of traffic (although it's died down a bit since the move) target mmb/bg out for them, or?

[Slaughterhouserock]

How do other boards/sites deal with spambots, then?  And malicious code inserted via 'quiet' bots?

I was a mod/admin on a horror board for years and never really had a problem with them.  I was the only mod that dealt with them on a regular basis and I just deleted them as I found them.  Even after the better part of a decade, we never had problems like on BG.  We didn't require posting, have a captcha, or anything else to prevent it, so I don't know why the old boards were targeted so heavily.

[phaedrusxy]

How do other boards/sites deal with spambots, then?  And malicious code inserted via 'quiet' bots?

I was a mod/admin on a horror board for years and never really had a problem with them.  I was the only mod that dealt with them on a regular basis and I just deleted them as I found them.  Even after the better part of a decade, we never had problems like on BG.  We didn't require posting, have a captcha, or anything else to prevent it, so I don't know why the old boards were targeted so heavily.

Revenge of G0... oh wait, I doubt he's competent enough to pull that off.

[bhu]

Perhaps not G0 but there are quite a few gamers with a rabid hatred of optimization

[veekie]

Spambots target forums based on visibility and software type mainly. They'd usually go after boards which use software with known vulnerabilities(including patched ones, because not all sites use the latest patch), and most of them take their targeting by crawling links until they find a suitable forum. So partly its just visibility and scale.