Reply To: Spam wave after the last update?

[Nathan]

Yeah, I’ve seen that before too — not usually right after *Google* stuff specifically, but after any update where the forum’s defenses get a little sloppy for a day or two. On WordPress sites it’s usually the usual junk: same signup patterns, same disposable emails, same dumb “nice post” garbage. If the update touched anything around caching, login/session handling, or a spam plugin, I’d check that first before blaming search stuff. Honestly I’d look at: – registration settings – any anti-spam plugin logs – rate limiting / firewall rules – whether a cache plugin is serving stale login/signup pages I’ve had it where a cache plugin plus a security plugin started fighting each other and suddenly the spam filter looked “broken” when it was really just not getting the right requests. Annoying as hell. Nathan’s probably right that it’s more a bot wave than some grand Google thing, but yeah, the timing always makes people suspicious. Just my experience.