We keep getting spammed by russian bots. I don't know why or how to stop it while still letting through regular people. All my anti spam sign up things aren't working and yesterday they managed to fill the database with enough crap that the system was shut down.
I pruned out all users after november. Hopefully we didn't have any legit signups since then. It's pretty safe assuming our forum is just THAT dead.
FB killed the forum.
Anyway, let me know if you see any random spam posts. It's hard to catch them all. My back end is so filled with them, I'm not sure what you guys see and what only I see.
Damn russians
-Yoshi
Re: Damn russians
Thanks for your efforts to admin the forums!
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Re: Damn russians
Unless the IP range for the bots is coming out of Russia and you can block them, there isn't much you can do.
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'87 BMW 325 - It works, but I'm ready to move on
'93 Mazda Miata - Rallycross ahoy
'18 Ford Fiesta ST - Maggie is keeping the party going
'02 BMW 330i - SpookE new drift car
Re: Damn russians
Yeah, it's always a damn game of whack-a-mole, unfortunately. Thanks for swinging the mallet, tho! 
Re: Damn russians
I reported a few, but not before I asked Kate if they were actually relevant.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks for all your hard work!
Re: Damn russians
Probably all viagra or something stupid.
Anywho, Seems to be done with. Hopefully I didn't prevent any users from posting on the forums. It was a huge database mess I'm still dealing with.
Anywho, Seems to be done with. Hopefully I didn't prevent any users from posting on the forums. It was a huge database mess I'm still dealing with.
-Yoshi