I remember when the spam used to show onsite before it was deleted. You'd arrive at the new threads page and it would be full of spam. There is always going to be a delay between the spam arriving and when someone can delete it. It's a bad look when there are 20 new posts and 18 of them are spam - it puts off people joining and taking part.
Just as some background, here's an article that describes the benefits of the spam that only contains links to rankings in search engines:
http://searchengineland.com/new-york...n-google-64529
Getting many links back to your site out into the www is one of the reasons we have so many spambots that merely open an account, put a link into their signature, and then log-in. They're hoping to be "found" by the search engine web crawlers and subsequently raise their search ranking. (which isn't to say there isn't other kinds of spam postings too). During the last months "spam fest" we were being overrun with these link-only spambots, seeing new accounts created every few minutes or more!
But things seem better now ... thanks Craig!
Every few minutes! What a nightmare. Thanks to you all for dealing with this.
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