Site Updates - 12/20/2009
Wow, I haven't been around the forum the last few weeks due to the holidays and work, and I was blown away by the amount of spam that had hit here! Thanks to those who reported offensive topics and spam - I deleted over 300 posts and banned 72 accounts today!
Unfortunately, that just treats the symptom, not the cause. So in order to deter automated registrations, I added a simple question to the signup page that real users should have no problem answering. This won't catch all of them, but hopefully it significantly cuts back and makes cleaning up the stragglers more manageable. If this doesn't do anything to deter spam bots, I'll looking into adding a CAPTCHA or other heavier security measures.
In addition to the above, I also fixed the issue with the forum not remembering your login when "Log me on automatically each visit" was checked. Let me know if you're still having issues with that.
Lastly, I've begun working on recruiting some additional help around here to give me a hand with keeping the forum in check. I'd like to thank everyone for their patience with the transition to the new forum and hopefully we can keep things running smoothly around here!