Reply To: Spam reports keep piling up again

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Yeah, same crap here. It’s not even the volume so much as the pattern — dead giveaway signups, then some nonsense post that looks barely warmed over. I’m with you on not tightening regs too hard. Every time someone goes full “fortress mode” it just ends up annoying actual users while the junk still finds a way through. The bots don’t care, they just keep hammering whatever’s open. Honestly I’ve had better luck just pruning fast and keeping an eye on first-post behavior than trying to outsmart the whole mess at signup. Still a pain though. Feels like every couple weeks it gets worse again for no obvious reason.