Someone Explain Spammers to Me

[PTRILEY]

I click on them to report them, should I stop?

[Calidor]

But just last night I was hoping to find a good site in a 3rd world nation that I could order Nike from...

[Draugr]

I verified when I hit mark all forums read it gives them no views.

[Ry Vor]

It's a bot getting thru the capcha. It reads some text on the thread to trick users thinking it's a real person. The best way to prevent all of this is to have Ry Vor being the only one with the privilege to create new accounts...

Given this morning set a new record for spam, I am attempting to eliminate the problem by my having to manually authorize all new registrants.
So if you have a buddy wanting to register, they may have to wait a day or so to begin posting.

[unclemike]

Well, I can attest that the new authorization process is working against spammers. Just in the past 9 hours, I received 12 requests to create new forum accounts. If any is an actual person, send support an email and Rick or myself will approve of your forum account.