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I've been thinking of ways to counteract the spambots and I believe I've came up with something.Basically, what I'm thinking of would be a 'Mark as Spam' link on the posts that would set a ban on the bots and flag them somewhere in the admin CP, and after 2 flags per post count of the user the user is automatically banned.I haven't actually started coding it yet, but what I'm looking at adding is essentially another column on the member table that counts how many posts have been marked as spam, along with one function to pull the value of the table, check if it is greater than the post count * 2, and if so add an automatic ban against the username.Another feature I was considering was a minimum post count to mark as spam, along with a button on the users profile for administrators to reset/change the spam count.Also, since I haven't ran this past the admins yet, there's no guarantee it'll be used here, but I do intend on at least making it and posting it on SMFs mod site.