The purpose of a spam bot

What are they even trying to accomplish, anyway? We just had one post in our feedback forum and the post as removed with the account banned seconds later (literally). They spend the time to register (I guess if it's a bot it doesn't matter) to post their horribly written advertisement, completely irrelevant to the topic of the forum (the forum's members won't care about what they are advertising anyway), only to get banned right away. Not very good marketing if you ask me.

 

Well, you'd be surprised at how many times they get lucky and hit a forum that isn't active or maintained (remember all the spam we had when AA was dormant?). They've then scored some backlinks (multiply this times a hundred of other inactive sites they just spammed) and ultimately drive some sort of traffic to their site.

 

Oh lawdy...THOSE things...one of the forums I staff had a HUGE problem with those suckers...at least one a DAY at times...the admins and I had a ton of fun cussing 'em out and leaving their threads up (editing OUT the ad, of course) to taunt them...

I have lost all respect in Apple because of their daily adbot >__>

At least the two sites I run myself haven't had those problems...

But yeah, I gotta agree that on more active forums, they don't stand a chance...I mean, what's the point if your ad's gonna be gone in a matter of seconds? It only serves to piss off the staff at that point >__>

 

"The purpose of a spam bot"

I thought their sole purpose was to make work for me, like a low grade computer virus.

 

They're counting on not all forums having someone actively delete the spam. If they make 100,000 posts and only one percent stay up, that's still a heckuva lot of links to their site.

I doubt they'd even bother to read your messages.

 

Spam actually generates billions of dollars in sales and scams every year. $80 Billion in 2008 if I recall correctly. If they sell one iPhone, a dozen little blue pills or any number of other things they list than they have made the money back. A thousand site campaign literally costs about $30.00. Considering a lot of these "companies" are selling contraband that fell off the back of a truck or got too close to Somalia, its easy to make a profit.

Not only that but you have to consider than not every site is as diligent as you are. Some don't even delete the spam if they visit the site. They don't care. To many forum owners, guest users are worth more money that registered users because studies have shown that guests are more likely to click on advertising when they exit a website.

 

The best mod ever made for this ---------> Stop The Registration Bots

 

Heck Wayne, I should get into the spamming business. :lol:

 

I was thinking the exact same thing, lol.