Community Coding Project

(10-27-2009 04:49 AM)Mireille Wrote:  When EK says he's tried hacking, he means he's been trying to grab files on CMC that he shouldn't have access to, not that he's been spambotting the forums.

True - that's what I thought as well, though I tend to bundle the two together because they're unethical and intrusive.

masa Wrote:The spambotting most likely comes from some external company/service that'll charge some $00s to provide a few tens of thousands of backlinks to their customers via automated posting on just as many different forums or social networking sites or whatever. Whoever's benefitting from those links being posted almost certainly neither knows that this particular forum is being affected nor particularly cares.

I think I noticed a pattern for some of them, so yeah, most likely they are spambots as opposed to humans.

The contract will die out soon enough.