i was just a wee lad of 17 when i started having to despam this here forum.
many things have changed since then and this is not one of them. i guess it's nice to have SOME constants in life....
EzraS wrote:
It is the Baba Ji spam epidemic which occurs on many forums (especially vBulletin and similar ones) periodically. It's been going on for years. WP is just one of many random targets.
Perhaps there's a super genius in our midst who can contrive a permanent solution.
i have always liked the idea of requiring initial posts (perhaps the first five, but no more than ten) by new users to recieve approval by mods/admins, with the intent of stopping it before it gets a chance to spread.
there is already a system in place that lets posts be approved, but AFAIK it hasn't been used since 2014 when this version of the site was new - a short lived glitch had ALL new posts by ALL users require confirmation.
i guess a problem would be figuring out how to "redirect" new posts in that way?
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