Reply To: Spam wave hitting my forum again

Yeah, it’s been ugly here too. What’s actually helped me more than captcha nonsense is making the first post basically worthless to them — no links, no signatures, no profile link showing up until they’ve cleared a couple hurdles. The junk accounts I’m seeing are all after the easy stuff, so once that’s gone they usually move on. Also, if your forum software lets you rate-limit new accounts a bit, do it. Not forever, just long enough to make the spam batch annoying. The bots don’t seem to like waiting around. Still sucks though. Every time I think it’s calmed down, there’s another pile of “John_48372” accounts posting the same garbage link like clockwork. Honestly,