forum member bots

[Fluxy 1,660]

Im asking this just from a curriosty point of view as I wish to widen my knowlege of the internet.

I cant help but notice that every single day right down at the bottom where it say "our newest member is:XXXX" there is somebody new, click on the members tab and go too the last two pages, its full off people with usernames that dont make sence, they never post, they never vist. So are they bots is what im asking?

if they are I thought we had methods in place to stop forum member lists being flooded with fake bots. And if they are bots, I really dont see the point in making an account and never visting ever again?

Not a big issue or anything, was just wondering and dident know who to ask for an explanation

[Biggles 44]

Yes they're bots, their objective is to post spam on the forum but we have a plugin that stops that, unfortunately we don't have one that stops them signing up

[Fluxy 1,660]

Ah thank you Biggles, you can lock this and move it to spam or delete it or whatever

[NightWalker 0]

You can stop mostly with captcha or just adding something custom field someone has to enter "cat" into to avoid it :D