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Well ive been to one website where some member hacked the website.
destroyed it and will only give it back until he gets some $$$
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Sorry but that has got to be the biggest amount of poo I have heard on these boards in a good while.
1) If you do not own your own website server then you should expect such things to be irrevisible/difficult to regain control of.
However if you are in the area of
2)You own the address, your personal details are assigned to the whois or the companys account records, a simple email to their support team would give you a new account to your control panel and back access to admin your website. Last time I checked my CPanel there is a backup option one simple click and everything is backed up.
Adding an Arcade to the forums would slow it down yes but only per user download of the game and after that you are just dealing with database queries to read and update scores which isnt going to kill anyones speed. The only way you would get hacked through adding a mod is if the mod itself was exploitable and any good forum admin should google up exploit databases to check.
If hackers want to hack your website they will not need an exploit to do so.
By the way the best way to stop a bot is to use a human, bots can not outwit the average human being. Simply have a 24 hour approval process or force people to write a mini bio those that want to be part of the community will do so those who dont and bots will find another site.