What's with all the spam?

[Tweeds]

Over the past few weeks there's been an influx of new accounts that post a bunch of spam or scams. You know the ones... What gives? Is this happening in other forums, has this happened before, or are we just unlucky? Anybody know how to stop this nonsense? Seems like the only way would be to screen new accounts or posts somehow, or maybe put a cap on how many new threads one can open in x amount of time, but all that would be sorta authoritarian. I dunno much about these sort of things, and I dunno how to deal with it in the back end, but maybe somebody here does!

Luckily, at least, this wave of spammers and scammers have been obviously bogus - better than something more lucrative. 

Edited March 25, 2022 by Tweeds
Picture of spam.

[Yarb]

@Mike

[Reptoid Overlords]

Moose and squirrel will not look at pictures of cars.

[SoCalJim]

Hahaha!  Russia needs more rubles.  

[Tweeds]

15 minutes ago, SoCalJim said:

Hahaha!  Russia needs more rubles.  

Ha! They must be really desperate coming to car people - I already spent all my money on my car! 

[SoCalJim]

I know!  Hahaha!

[Tweeds]

Here's an idea - being able to block profiles. See someone who's obviously one of these spamming cats? Block 'em. That way they're out of your feed, and we don't have to wait for @Mike to clear 'em out. Not that Mike isn't doing what he can, but I don't expect him to be a 24/7 watchdog for spammers. Right now, the front page is 100% scam bull%^*%, and most posts were made in the last 20 minutes. 

Again, dunno how hard this 'blocking' thing would be in the back end - just thinking out loud!

[Mike]

We were only hit by a random bot software.  Not a big deal, other than a bunch of crap in our forums..  I removed them this weekend.

Mike