Lowell (10/5/2015)
agreed. they added code that insta-deletes anything Celko posts(thank you for that!), so they can reuse that same code, and just add something that detects the new user spamming multiple forums in x seconds., and start expanding the spam detection rules from there.Not sure, but do the spammers have to register and also confirm registration via an email link before they can post? or can they just register with fake@gmail.com and go crazy?
Is that true about Celko? I wondered where that thread about "IN clause very slow" had gone.
Something really needs to be done. There are various strategies already in place in other fora around the Internet: I don't see why they couldn't implement a few here.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.