SPAM Attack!

[Boy_Tomo_Chan]

It could be! aww tsundere spambots, how nice

[NorseFTX]

Out of curiosity, I looked at its "About Me" page:

About equicabbaby

Biography
Man

Location
Liberia

Interests
equicabbaby

Occupation
Liberia

Random Fact
equicabbaby

[Boy_Tomo_Chan]

he's interested in himself! how egotistic! D:<

EDIT2: I disappeared from the members list at the bottom of the page. Sad.

will he come back? D:

[brightsuzaku]

It actually inspired me to add a random fact about myself, incidentally. NOW, WE KNOW IT IS A MAN. And this Man's day-job, apparently, is being a country riled up in civil war. Does that mean he's in Hetalia, now?

[NorseFTX]

Oh-kay...
Right! So now there's one that wishes for us to download the "home of the giants" movie.
Just a moment ago, the notice at the very bottom said, "Welcome to our newest member, equicabbaby." It had changed not too long ago, and I was a bit wary, so I clicked on this new "marleenbaldwin" person and saw it was viewing its own newly created spam thread.

[Chaosblade]

I see a captcha was added for posting. That might help, but they look like the same ones that are used on the registration page that the enemy spam cans are already getting around, unfortunately.

From the documentation, it looks like the Question/Answer verification is built in, but you have to manually add questions to it to use it. Setting that up with awkwardly worded questions that spam bots can't decipher and using it on the registration page should be enough to keep them from even registering so we wouldn't need it for individual posts.

Yay for learning experiences, yeah? Sucks that in this case it's pretty frustrating. Some other people can probably offer better advice than I can, seems there are some people experienced with vBulletin, I've only worked with IPB.

[Shizuka]

Captchas for posting is annoying. Just create a "Report" button for multi-purpose uses.

[H.Protagonist]

*sigh* Those SPAMbots are relentless. How the heck do they get onto the forums so quickly? ;_; Should I take the captcha function off of the posting? Is it super annoying? We ARE pretty quick to erase spam threads (it's almost like a game for us all now) after all. :P

[PercolatedNinja]

Sensing SPAM from user Wamebleab (check their profile) (it's like that equicabbabby one, right?) in 3... 2... 1...

[Boy_Tomo_Chan]

I would see how the captcha thing works for a while and if they're still coming, I'd just turn it off. People are smart enough not to click the links, its just annoying seeing them post over and over I say :P