I understand

I have edited Gumanov's post.
See if that works better for you...

i'll keep sniffing around for any real bugs...

:-)

For your information

Please see here:
http://www.userlogos.org/node/18097

Spammer ?

http://www.userlogos.org/user/48010/spambot

George we stopped users publishing stuff in their profile, as many used it for promotion

Have you kept the settings the same

This user and account not listed with Spambot but I declared as spam

Do you agree ?

Second flower shop spammer

http://www.userlogos.org/user/48005

Please see previous comment

Also reported

These are not reegistered with Spambot as they are not comments

Please respond about his sort of Spam in Prolfiles

It was hugely common until DK blocked this possibility

OK

The site is getting "healthier" or that is my impression.
That is the users are more visible now there are less spambots all the time as online users
This is much better

I feel it, I hope the users do

I think this personal information spam must be knocked on the head. Possibly as this is not comment spam SFS do not have records of these users, but this guy called twice today and if one does not catch when they are posting, they remain invisible, that is why DK and I blocked this option

Maybe you have some other solution

When Spambot scans users it seems that it does not report users to it's own site and that this is only done manually.

Yeah it can only be done manually.
Spambot protects by scanning against the database, while reporting is optional.
Reporting requires an API key, which must be requested, and does not automatically come with spambot.
They never made it automatic I guess.

I can remove this feature all together..?

It is a shame but maybe yes

There is not an obvious way to stop this abuse
It was very common and DK and I found this was the only solution

I have just enabled honeypot protection on the profile forms here:
http://www.userlogos.org/admin/settings/honeypot

So we can let it stay enabled for now and see how it works.
If we continue to get spam in profile page forms, I will remove the feature.

I wonder how it recognises spammers
Because these are not Spambots I think

If they are human spammers then there is no way to really block, but only to moderate after they spam.
Unless we just disable that feature. Guess we will see