There are definitely two kinds of bad actors when it comes to scraping/scripting things. The automated drive by ones trying to spam posts in every form or are

There are definitely two kinds of bad actors when it comes to scraping/scripting things. The automated drive by ones trying to spam posts in every form or are probing for word press exploits or what have you. The ones where someone is specifically taking time out of their day to tailor their attack to your specific page. The former is easy to deal with the latter is far harder to sort out.