Google [Bot] user shown when browsing forum.

[blazespinnaker]

This is useful for spammers as they can time their posts to make sure they get pulled into the google search index. As an example, someone posted a spam post that coincided while Google [Bot] was browsing.

There is also a nofollow tag that you should make sure gets added to outgoing links. I didn't see it in the html, but perhaps there is another way you're doing this via bot detection.

[Jap2.0]

Googlebot is always browsing. Bingbot almost always is, as well. You used to be able to find Yahoo's bot sometimes, but I haven't seen that recently...

[Koub]

Spams that make it to the forum's users' eyes are extremely rare. And when they do, there are usually taken care of very quickly.
Moreover, I'm not sure a spambot can take advantage of googlebot crawling in real time.

[blazespinnaker]

Nope. We have a term we like to use around the office for sites like this - soft target.

[Koub]

I'm far from being a cybersec expert, I'll let the forum admins step up here if they see fit.

[Trific]

Nope. We have a term we like to use around the office for sites like this - soft target.

And yet, the proof is in the pudding. Far less spam here than I've seen on many other sites.

[Jap2.0]

Nope. We have a term we like to use around the office for sites like this - soft target.

Again, it doesn't matter: it always shows that.