xpadmin wrote:
It was worse when the forum started. Then it was about 4 times a day. Now its once a week.
I have about 400 ip's banned now (almost all from china).
The spammers use "real" people to circumvent the securities, so there is not a good solution to solve the problem.
The flooding itself must be an automated process. I will look into tricks to prevent this.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
I know that the Kerbal Space Program Forum uses something called "Spam-O-Matic", which according to the forum site at this moment claims:
495511 Spammers Denied Registration
1212 Spammers Permanently Banned
1210 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam
8146 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated