Reply To: Weird spam spike on one of my forums

[Nathan]

In my opinion, Yeah, I’ve seen that too. Usually it’s not some huge “the bots are smarter now” thing, it’s just one weak spot getting hammered for a few days. If it’s WordPress forum stuff, I’d be looking at the registration flow and first-post permissions before anything else. Half the time people swear they’ve got anti-spam on, then some plugin update or setting drift makes it basically decorative.