Right, bots is a term short for robots, meaning it's not really a live person you can interact with. When a site becomes popular, bots and spammers start showing up in droves simply because so many people view the pages of this forum. They are hoping someone will click on their website, which can be something being sold, adult content, viruses, or any number of bad stuff. If a forum isn't monitored, like YouTube, things really get out of control. Bots all over the place and everyone fighting. But because our forum is closely monitored, we won't have that happen. Nobody can even register without me knowing about it and checking the profile. But even that comes too late sometimes and a post is made. That's when our team of moderators has to step in and remove the post and ban the poster. And even further, if a member sees a spam post, please report it like I said in the first post on this thread. We have safeguards in place, but there will be times when something slips through and makes it to a forum thread. Thankfully, it's rare so far.
