5 ms·
Are there really bots going around filling out random guestbooks on the Internet in 2020?
by skellera 6y ago
Are there really bots going around filling out random guestbooks on the Internet in 2020?
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoYep. You put a form on the Internet that might show a URL to the general public, a bot will fill it out endlessly in the hopes of spewing malware links.
- tornato7 6y agoI had a personal website from 2007 that ran for maybe 10 years. Unfortunately I had an open comments section and it was not paginated. Once bots made a half-million comments the site wouldn't load anymore. Decided to just shut it down for good. I had another WordPress site that was hacked by prescription medicine scammers. I thank bots for ruining the early internet.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoLast year I briefly erected a CMS that I imagined had no abuse potential. I got asked by my host to fix it (I nuked it too), because spammers were registering accounts with it... setting the email address as the target of their spam. I apparently got into trouble here because I was tired of WordPress and decided to try something else... and look where it got me.