Yesterday AllOut.org took down a petition aimed at shooting back against anti-gay boycott groups placing pressure on EA due to gay characters included in the game publisher’s titles. The petition had been hit with what looked like spambots, as well as by obvious spammers who took their disdain of EA to the comments section of the AllOut petition.

In other words, alongside obvious individual spammers, something was adding duplicate comments to the petition (see, for example) – most of which voiced some

This article originally appeared on: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/04/11/allout-org-director-andre-banks-on-the-ea-anti-boycott-petition-and-spambot-attack/