Reply To: Weird spam spike on one of my forums

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Realistically, yeah, I’ve seen that too. Usually it’s just a wave of junk signups hitting the same weak spots, not some mysterious forum meltdown. If it suddenly got worse, I’d still look at the boring stuff first — plugin changes, registration flow, whether first-post links got loosened, that kind of thing. The “AI-ish nonsense post” part is pretty typical now, unfortunately.