Reply To: Weird spam surge on my forum lately

From what I see, Usually, yeah, it’s been the same crap on a couple boards I deal with too. Usually it’s some dumb burst, not “advanced bots” or whatever people like to pretend. I’d check the first-post queue and any weak registration step before you start locking everything down. Half the time tightening the whole signup flow just annoys real users and the junk still gets through anyway. Honestly,