I'm mainly a lurker around here - but I pop my head up every now and then. One of the sites I run (non-adult) has a phpbb running on it. Over the last few days the "public" forums on it have been getting attacked by a spambot which has been posting the following message....
Now, since this is a mainstream (non-porn) site, having a message like this is not good. So, I figure out a way to block it, and go check out the phpbb website and find out that 30,000+ phpbb sites have been attacked by the same bot over the past few days. Some folks have done their best to trace the origin of the attacks to a guy in Spain.
So, I'm curious what some of you think of this. This guy has obviously signed up for an affiliate account from a paysite - and has now built a bot to see if he can get some money. Do any site owners actually condone this type of activity - or is something like this taboo among the adult community? It seems to me like something like this could only bring negatitive publicity to a site..... much more then any additional traffic it would bring.
If you found out one of your affiliates was doing this - would you terminate their account - or would you sit back and bask in all the additional traffic?
Originally posted by Pepotamo1985
So, I'm curious what some of you think of this. This guy has obviously signed up for an affiliate account from a paysite - and has now built a bot to see if he can get some money. Do any site owners actually condone this type of activity - or is something like this taboo among the adult community? It seems to me like something like this could only bring negatitive publicity to a site..... much more then any additional traffic it would bring.
If you found out one of your affiliates was doing this - would you terminate their account - or would you sit back and bask in all the additional traffic?