First, a human constructs a template and a list of interchangeable parts (for example "bump this thread!" vs. "kick then ban █BOT TEST SPAM█ as soon as possible", or random selections from Project Gutenberg etexts). Later, the computer fills the template with pseudorandomly chosen parts, and either the computer posts it or a human copy-pastes it.Bregalad wrote:It would be the other way arround I guess ? Created by humans, posted by a bot. How could a computer create a message by it's own, and then an human stupidly copy/paste the message ?The vast majority of spam messages that I've deleted from this board appear to have been generated by a bot. So it's either A. posted by a bot, or B. generated by a bot and copy-pasted into the forum by a human.
I found another canary in the list of new members that haven't posted yet: Google the user name and the part of the e-mail address before the @. If either shows up as a banned spammer on a couple other forums, scrub the account.
I also increased the delay after post from 5 seconds to 30.