Reply To: Weird spam surge on my forum lately

To be fair, yeah, I’ve seen that too. Usually it’s just some dumb burst and then it dies off, but it’s annoying as hell when it lands on your board. If it’s the same junk accounts posting the same nonsense, I’d be checking whether they’re getting past signup or just reusing old sessions/cookies/IPs. A lot of the time the “spike” is just a few gaps in whatever anti-spam setup u already have, not some big mystery. Honestly the part that usually helps most is slowing down the first post, not the signup. People always want to make registration harder, then real users get punished while the spammer just moves on to the next cheap script. Classic forum nonsense. Could be wrong though.