spambot
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- noun
- /ˈspæmˌbɑt/
- Texting
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spambot
- To improve the site's performance, the administrators banned a notorious spambot that was spamming the comment section.
Examples
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Most responsible websites have sanitized their posted email extracts to remove actual email addresses to discourage feeding the spambots.
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In case you missed it, it is just a one-time thing to slow down the spambots.
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If you are a real person and not a spambot, then please feel free to send me an email.
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If our spam program thinks you are a spambot, you will be given a chance to prove otherwise.
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First off, any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here.
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What if they were written by spambots who automatically gave you five stars?
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On hundreds and hundreds of blogs, like a tireless little spambot.
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Enter "Happy" in this box (required - this helps stop spambots).
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If you're a human being (read: not a spambot) and you're on Facebook, you've probably wondered who looks at your profile.
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Many social media platforms use algorithms to detect and block a spambot from posting unwanted messages.
How Automated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Spambot is made from spam and bot, where spam means 'unwanted messages' and bot is short for robot, meaning 'automatic program'. So a spambot is like a little robot that sends many 'unwanted messages' on its own.