Thanks for your advice

Hello admin, I wanted to PM this to you, but your box was full.

As a long time member I'd like to just say thanks for keeping this place running. But for a while now, I have noticed a severe issue with Spambots (fake accounts) posting nonsense in every single forum on a daily basis. It does get reported and the staff deletes it, but a few hours later the forum is full of spam posts. It's driving members away from your forum.

If I may, I would suggest you install a system where all new posts must be approved by the staff. Many forums have a similar system, where the first 5 posts a person has to make must be approved. This would would drastically help to eliminate the problem. Thus restoring confidence in the forum and boosting member participation.

I hope you will consider this suggestion. Thank you.

P.S.

The spam seems to be coming from only a handful of IPs, so you might consider tracing those IPs and reporting them to their ISP, so they can have their service removed. If that doesn't work, you could just ban those IPs for now.