Guests

[Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)]

Shed load of them tonight why dont they join and reap all the benifits?
Cheers
Bitsa

[Trigger]

Bitsa, Its only members that can not be bothered to sign in

[Green1]

Are you watching me Trig

Mick

[SteveD CB500K0]

Most of them are spammers or web-bots (like Google)

On average, I get 5 or 6 spam registrations per hour: 3,700 in the last 30 days.

Luckily the software spots 99% of them and it's quite rare to have to delete a successful registrant.

[Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)]

Bloody hell Steve well done mate,some people are real sad
Cheers
Bitsa

[Trigger]

Mick i see you through the screen sitting on the sidelines.

[Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)]

Nice one Trig got him
Cheers
Bitsa

[Trigger]

I know nothing about spammers but, do know a lot about spanners

[SteveD CB500K0]

Bloody hell Steve well done mate,some people are real sad
Cheers
Bitsa

There are thousands of people out there (in India etc) who are paid a few $ for each successful forum or website registration.
They will go quiet for a while once registered and then fill your site with links to fake Jimmy Choo shoes and the like. One spammer can past thousands of links an hour.
They do it because Google likes links and the more you can get your links out there on other sites, the higher up the Google search page you will get.

On .net we forgot to check the Gallery comments for a while and discovered 65 pages of spam comments on one of the images - each page had 10 comments and each comment had a couple of hundred links in it. No way we could manually delete them all (one at a time) so Glenn wrote a database script and deleted them in the background.
Lesson learned.

[Green1]

Mick i see you through the screen sitting on the sidelines.

I bet you do you naughty boy.
Good job you can't see what site I'm on when signed in as a Guest.

[JamesH]

Bloody hell Steve well done mate,some people are real sad
Cheers
Bitsa

There are thousands of people out there (in India etc) who are paid a few $ for each successful forum or website registration.
They will go quiet for a while once registered and then fill your site with links to fake Jimmy Choo shoes and the like. One spammer can past thousands of links an hour.
They do it because Google likes links and the more you can get your links out there on other sites, the higher up the Google search page you will get.

On .net we forgot to check the Gallery comments for a while and discovered 65 pages of spam comments on one of the images - each page had 10 comments and each comment had a couple of hundred links in it. No way we could manually delete them all (one at a time) so Glenn wrote a database script and deleted them in the background.
Lesson learned.

What they don't realise now is that Google actively negatively scores black hat SEO tactics like this with the latest algorithm update. Might have been valid two or three years ago, but directory listings and spammy backlinks are easily flagged and penalised these days (thank god). It's all about good and relevant content these days...

[Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)]

India thought they were busy making Royal Enfields.Thanks for the update Steve
Cheers
Bitsa

[Trigger]

Mick, are you sure that your not my old headmaster 

[Bitsa (Ralph Wright - RIP)]

Trig
Only if he is lying about his age
Cheers
Bitsa

[Green1]

Maybe in my past life 
Dam you beet me to it