we’ve been having issues with spam on native beats forums, we got caught napping and the site was flooded for a week or two with automated spam full of links to dodgy sites, presumably to bump the sites up google search.

what added insult to injury is that we didnt realise it was a bot doing teh spam, so we felt pretty dumb whne we realised we’d been taking the piss out of a robot for a fortnight.

we put email-confirmation in the registration form, but it seems after 3 months the spammers are back again. i really cant be bothered to do the boring clean-up needed to keep the site useable and interesting. theres nothing more offputting than going to a forum where all the recent posts read “memory foam matress discounts” by ‘qweybk'”. any tips?

on the email tip, i had to ditch my old account (which i was paying for) and use gmail instead, which to be honest is a better inbox, but the address isnt as personalised. now i use two accounts, one to register with companies i dont trust, and one for mates. that way if the secondary one gets spam attatcked to hell, i dont have to change my personal email.