Web forum spambots got smarter:
- Bypass signup quiz & CAPTCHA with ease (that's old)
- Lay low, posting LLM answers to old threads, one per day, generally agreeing with everything already said and not attracting attention, but build poster credit
- Slowly start including links to probe the waters, but those links are to normal, harmless websites
- Eventually, when established, start posting spam links to whatever they've been set to target:, ads, trojans, political propaganda, etc.
Much harder to detect and easy to slip by in a busy forum. Moderators who do not recognize this pattern will often give them the benefit of the doubt as they made some "real" posts and seem human at a glance.












