Looks like spam has hit in a bad way today.
Sadly, once this problem occurs, like termites it doesn't seem to go away. Looks like Admin team will have to look at the anti-spam techniques for forums.
The Spammers Have Found Us
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Re: The Spammers Have Found Us
This was particularly bad just one day, but I've cleaned this up now after changing the registration spambot security settings and there has not been a repeat since.
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Re: The Spammers Have Found Us
Well done! I noticed that either the mods had been working very hard or the threat had subsided
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Re: The Spammers Have Found Us
The mods did some surface level cleaning, but the acid rain was severe enough that the Admin had to come in with some heavy bleach and do a full wipe down and put some future-proof coating