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BirdOPrey5 · #1 11-21-2012, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

The entire point of using bots is speed. I would be a little surprised if botnet admins started programming long delays between filling out the form and clicking submit. It sort of defeats the purpose of using bots.

I disagree. The point of using bots is automation.

You set the bot to run and you go one about your day. Whether it takes 5 minutes or 5 hours is of no real concern to the person spamming links across forums.

Yes it will take longer when the bots start adapting, but they will because there is still much money to be made with spamming links.

While the time-lock method is a good method it is still going to be better to have some sort of captcha type challenge easy for humans but impossible for bots, long term, IMO.

That said no reason not to install the bot-time-check for now.

- My 2 cents.

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