Reply To: Weird spam surge on my forum lately

[axelrowan]

Personally, yeah, we saw a burst like that a while back and it was mostly just noisy bot churn, not anything clever. If you’re already on honeypot + rate limit + email verify, I’d be looking at first-post moderation before I start piling on more signup friction. That’s usually the bit that actually cuts the junk without making legit users hate you.