AUGH crazy amounts of spam

Tom, Ashley halp it's like a frigging whack a mole in here, the defenses have been breached and the spambots are attacking

Rep is irrelevant and links can be posted regardless

Help us Gullen bros, you're our only hope

Very much seconded.

Its the great spam flood of 2014.

Guess they picked a bad day to have a real life.

I just bought a new kitchen....is something wrong with it?^^

Always a good idea to have some spam left <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink">

It is getting a bit out of hand, and the rep system clearly isn't working... how do other forums deal with it?

Added in a lot more protection today, confident it will reduce it.

Cool. Getting sick of hitting 'Report' numerous times a day :/

Thanks Tom. There has particularly been an issue with people(person) trying to sell licenses. Stuff get's annoying fast.

Chances are it's one person. All the attacks happen close together.

From the view count looks like he/it either uses slave machines, or the ion cannon.

And the email is nothing more than an attempt to get your email address so he can increase his harem of zombies.

Arima yes I once spotted a guest named "Yahoo" and beside it the word "Bot", so there are bots & Spammer, also people who make advertisement for an Arabic series & before the world cup. ( I understand since I Speak arabic ) , but yes alot of spammers & lot of troubles. I warned some of them but guess they don't care

Don't bother warning spammers, they definitely don't care and their threads will get deleted anyways, so doing so just wastes your time. Just report the post and move on.

There was a lot of spam today, like an entire page almost:

This is getting insane, I wonder how that should be solved, since I am guessing real humans people are involved into those posts (that or there is a big leak in the system)

Have to agree. Getting real sick of hitting 'Report'.

If you look at the time frame of the spam, they are all really close, so perhaps it is indeed the attack of the bots.

Some might not like this idea, but how about using an authentication process for posting if you do not have at least 1 silver medal, or 5 bronze medal, time been a member......or something like that.