I have taken some steps -- like banning certain known IP addresess and such, but it hardly stems the flow.
It is difficult to ban all these spam members because of the nature of the software. A little easier to delete them -- but still a multi-step process.
There have been 10+ spam members join since 9am this morning.
The wierd thing is that they almost never post anything -- they just join.
For a while we had 600+ spam members on the board! I was asleep at the switch I guess, but it didn't take long.
I don't understand what value they get out of joining the forum and not posting... Furthermore, I have to ask the question -- even if it doesn't cost them much to "advertise" in this way, what can it possibly be worth? Who buys products from these people?
Heck, even if you are the kind of person who pays for on-line pornography, do you decide to go to a particular Ukranian porn site because they are spamming the Rohrbaugh Forum?
I don't get it.
I wish someone smarter than me could explain the economics of this type of spamming to me... Anyone?