Reply To: Spam wave hitting my forum again

From what I’ve seen, yeah, same pattern here. It’s never just “a few spammers” anymore, it’s batches hitting the same weak spots over and over. What’s helped me more than CAPTCHA junk is just shutting off the easy abuse points for brand new accounts — profiles, signatures, links, whatever. CAPTCHA feels like busywork at this point. Most of the bots I’ve seen don’t care, they just burn through it or use human-solved stuff anyway. The annoying part is when you clean 20-30 accounts and the next wave looks exactly the same. Feels like they’re just probing for whichever forum still has one sloppy setting left open.