Spambot Prevention Suggestions

[coalhot]

My original post:

Originally Posted by coalhot

It shouldn't be terribly hard to make an autodetect script. All the bot spam posts in the past few months have been in the same manner. A line of text, and then a whole stack of links. All posted by a relatively new account, not associated with a team, and not properly set up...

Also, a thought. What if the forum was set up to pull a thread if enough people reported it, and it was posted by someone "questionable" (new user, no rep, low post count), and the thread would only be reinstated after a moderator approved it?