A lot of spam is also from automated bots, posting the same thing over and over, and they usually have jiggy names. These could EASILY be stopped by implementing Captcha [those random letters and numbers] on Login. It takes a second to type and bots can't read it.
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Originally Posted by Odin
An IP ban is a useless tactic. It is not hard at all to acquire a new IP address within a few minutes with most internet connections, because they are dynamically assigned.
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It may work in some cases, but I reckon that most of the spammers who just post to be annoying [not advertising] are children, they will have access to computers all over the place, schools, libraries, friends houses and so on, so maybe in these instances it won't be so successful.
The recent problem hasn't been creating new topics though - it has been spamming on old ones.