SPAM IS NOW OUT OF CONTROL - I have a solution but need help implementing.

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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

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.

And of which, slower bots mean less money, long term.

The time test is just another arrow in the quiver.

I have no doubt that as the time based test becomes more popular, botnet admins and botnet software designers will try to do a workaround. Problem is, they won't be all that aware of all the variables involved. Your individual setting, variable page load times - they would almost have to program in a 60 second delay in their bots. Multiply that times let's say, 10,000 bots in a botnet and that is ALOT of lost minutes.