Reply To: Spam wave hitting my forum again

[Pike]

Yeah, same here. It’s been one of those weeks where you delete one batch and another shows up 20 minutes later. What’s helped me more than anything is just making signup annoying enough that the junk stops being worth it. Nothing crazy, just some extra friction on registration and first post. The bots usually fall apart fast when they can’t blast straight through. I’m with hankroot on the approval queue thing too — fine when it’s a trickle, miserable when it turns into a flood. At that point you’re just doing unpaid janitor work all day. I’d rather make the door a little harder to open than keep sweeping the floor. I mean,