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keyness · #**414** 01-10-2015, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by kh99

Bot's don't use the page the same way a user does. While a human user looks at the page in a browser, fills in the fields, and might have to wait for the button to appear, a bot doesn't use a browser and doesn't have to use the submit button, it's just a program that can send data that looks just like a form being submitted from a browser.

It would be possible for a more sophisticated bot to see that the submit button isn't enabled and wait for it, or to just look and see how long to delay based on the timer in the javascript, but fortunately they don't seem to work that way. I think the reason this mod works is because it's not a standard feature of vbulletin. If it were, then someone might have already programmed a bot to get around it.

Thank you for clarification, Kevin.

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