Reply To: Spam bots are driving me nuts again

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Yeah, it’s the same circus here. The “slightly different username, same trash post” thing usually means they’re not even trying that hard, which is almost worse. I’ve had decent luck with: – first post moderation – no links until X posts – email verification that isn’t totally useless – a short delay between signup and first post Anything beyond that starts getting into “congrats, you annoyed real people for nothing” territory. Honestly the bigger win for me was just watching patterns in the logs and nuking the obvious repeats faster. Same IP ranges, same posting times, same weird phrasing. The bots aren’t clever, they just have volume on their side.