Main Forum down again.

[Mike029]

I'll bet it had something to do with the spammer hitting the forums with the 13 messages.

[Spankinmonkee]

From what I searched on that name he has done it all over the net

[joker]

What a [insert naughty word here]! Like we don't have enough problems with the boards already.

[Bok]

Good point actually, I've been through the spammer issue a lot. vBulletin has a few good ways to limit them that should probably get implemented here.

What I do at Free-DC.

1. Human verification. There are options to add basic questions which must be answered by anyone registering.
2. reCaptcha - I think that's already on
3. Users must be accepted by administrators. They get an email first, then the admin must approve them.
4. I have all users going into a usergroup named Registered which is severely limited - no PM's, avatars etc etc. Automatic promotion to a 'members' group after a set # posts gives all the options.
5. Restrict post flooding by setting the option to force an X second/minute delay between posts. X is configurable.

There are a lot of options available

[Mr. Hankey]

Spammer banned, by ip, email, and name all posts removed.

re: Bok, I think I have most of those suggestions implemented here.