Re: Lots of bots on this forum.....
Hi,
I'm the only moderator/admin person; helps keeps things agnostic around here. If you come across spam, below the post, bottom right corner is a small red "!" you can click on to report the spam. Quite a few users here have been really great in reporting spam for me to nuke. I typically check this site at least 2x/day, and respond to those spam reports by IP blocking and deleting the user account and associated posts, along with checking all new user accounts, posts or not, on their IP address. I've got a pretty good sense of spam account origins, and prune user accounts daily.
Overall efforts/results have been really good compared to other forums re: real user accounts vs spammers. As previously mentioned, live persons from other countries are notorious for manually creating spam accounts and bypassing the CAPTCHA hurdle, e.g., China, India, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraines, Philipines. I try to be sensitive to possible Stickists from other countries vs. spammers in regards to IP blocking, e.g., no IP blocking of Poland.
Pruning spammers from this site, just part of my daily routine, a small cost for such a great virtual community here.
Manny