This doesn't reduce spam.code reader wrote: one of the best ways to eliminate spambots is to make sure every link supplied by a user, both in his "home page" (profile) and any link that appears in any post, has a "rel=nofollow", which removes the main reason for spamming (it tells the search engines not to increase the rating of the linked site based on this link).
Manual spam maybe, but automated bot flooders don't care at ALL what rel you put on their comments.
Not all search engines care about the rel tag.
Modifying the bot's content doesn't do anything. Outright preventing it is the purpose.
I do so greatly hope that the phpBB group puts Bad Behavior or even something like Akismet to use.
The only problem with Akismet is how protection keys are handled.
Well... Bad Behavior it is then!