What exactly do they want these spam members? We have a new site, not ready yet, and we have already gotten some members with weird user names. One posted something that made no sense which i deleted, but the others haven't posted anything and they haven't put any links either...? What is to be expected? Should I remove them?
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What exactly do they want these spam members? We have a new site, not ready yet, and we have already gotten some members with weird user names. One posted something that made no sense which i deleted, but the others haven't posted anything and they haven't put any links either...? What is to be expected? Should I remove them?
@ASwedeinGreece
I was having a lot of Spam bots joining until I installed the SpamBot plugin.
Haven't had one since.
I think mostly they want to be able to leave hyperlinks to their sites so they can boost their SEO ranking.
This thread includes a way to make it work with Registration Approval:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/20464/feedback-on-botstop-plugin#latest