Reply To: Spam wave again on the forum?

[meloncrash]

To be fair, from what I’ve seen, yeah, seeing it here too. Same dumb burst of signups and a couple link drops that looked copy-pasted straight out of a spam farm. Honestly I’d stop treating it like “random noise” if it’s hitting multiple boards. Usually means they found some weak spot and are just pounding it until someone patches it. I’d check the boring stuff first — registration settings, captcha, any plugin updates, and whether guest posting or new-user links got loosened. Half the time it’s some “helpful” plugin update that quietly makes things worse. Manual nuking never lasts, like you said. You clear 20 and 40 more show up the next hour. Annoying as hell.