Those are not hackers, those are spam bots.
And the popular motives are (from Wikipedia):
* Breaching experiments, to see what one can do without punishment.
* Scorn or dislike for a project, expressed by attempts to sabotage or damage it.
* A desire to annoy or inconvenience other members, often for personal or political reasons.
* A distraction from something in a person's life, or as a way to vent real-life or wiki frustration.
* A sense of being cool, since they may attract attention on the project.
* Vanity or vainglory, editing articles about oneself or related to oneself.
* The motive for spam is typically monetary compensation or increased traffic to a website owned or participated in by the vandal.
* Rivalries between groups are one of the more common motives for vandalism. Users vandalize the pages of long-standing rivals or of opponents in upcoming events.
* Plain human stupidity, which is said to be infinite.
But here are the solutions to prevent this and have some degree of freedom again:
On the CodeBlocks Wiki:* Using CAPTCHA for user registration:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Captcha_extensions* Using the spam blacklist:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist* Using filters from Spam Filter:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_FilterI don't know if the forum is getting spammed, but if so, there are solutions for SMF too.
Please discuss how to solve the issue instead of discuss if spam is ethical or whatever. :evil: