Possible spam uptick

[Gryzor]

Hello guys!

During the last few days there has been an influx of new users, above the normal levels. Some of the accounts created were definitely spammer accounts, for others I have my doubts. Just wanted to ask you to report any suspicious behavior you see and it'll be taken care of.

Thanks!

[robcfg]

On the forum I'm administrator of we're getting an insane amount of connections and login attempts, to the point that it's almost impossible to do anything.

I know a couple of more forums that are suffering the same kind of attack.

How do you deal with this kind of situations?

[Gryzor]

On the forum I'm administrator of we're getting an insane amount of connections and login attempts, to the point that it's almost impossible to do anything.

I know a couple of more forums that are suffering the same kind of attack.

How do you deal with this kind of situations?

Thanks for the feedback. 

Nothing special on our end. Regarding new accounts it's always on manual approval, so if something suspicious appears (username, email, IP) they're either required to verify (99% of spam accounts never do) or are denied right away. 

Regarding connections, haven't checked since the server is doing fine but I'll try to take a look. 

I'm sure that at least some spammy accounts have gone through, so I'm wondering what they're up to...

[ComSoft6128]

Maybe not now but wouldn't a Forum (like this) be a good vehicle for an AI chatbot to be put thru its paces and indeed to see if it could pass the Turing test? 

[Gryzor]

Didn't we have a user or two like that a while ago?