snake wroteso you just keep zapping them? how can we get rid of them completely and who puts them here?
They put themselves here. It's like some asshole somewhere writes a program and then that program goes around automatically signing up to forums and posting pre-determined posts with links to whatever they're advertising.
Sometimes they get creepily smart, trying to act like real people. They find posts on the forum and copy them, but using slightly different words. Like it might take a sentence and replace the word "fast" with "quick" and "big" with "large" or something like that.
Usually it comes out sounding retarted though so you can still tell its a bot.
As for how to stop it, it will require a major overhaul of the forum sign-up process. We need to add in one of those text boxes that asks you to type the word you see in the image. Thats the best way to avoid bots since they're not smart enough to fill that shit in.