Forum Spam [UPDATED]
We are encountering a surge in the amount of spam accounts joining the forum, which started a couple of weeks ago. From what we can gather, this is something that's happening to many forums and would indicate a more concerted effort to post spam on forums recently. They appear to be manual sign-ups and postings, rather than by an automated means, and we're finding that the first post is now happening very shortly after joining, rather than what used to happen which was a delay between signing up the account and subsequently posting (which gave us a chance to ban obviously fake accounts before a posting happened).
We're going to keep a track on this for the next couple of weeks and if it does not ease up, we may have to alter the forums to avoid having the manual work of constantly deleting thread and posts and banning the users.
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