Since there has been a new influx of spammers whose only goal it is to make an account with spam profile, we have decided to remove all accounts that were just made to sport an URL of some kind or a profile, without the user posting on the forums.

We will be doing this on a regular basis from now on. If that means that some of you, who just made an account here for future use, have lost their account as well, then we're sorry. It couldn't be helped. But as the spammers show us, a new account with the same name is easily made.

For the project administrators who think this is a splendid idea, and who would want to do the same thing, David put the script into Git. It is available for download. Our other new feature of administrators being able to completely delete spammer's posts from their forums, is also available for download.

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For anyone wondering about the new title that I sprout, it's so I have access to the delete thread option, so I can actually delete spammer's threads now. Not much else I can do with it. Don't fret, I haven't secretly taken over these forums. :-)

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Since we seem to be in the middle of a spammer storm, and removing them almost becomes a day-job, I've asked for the spammer removal script to be run automatically. It's now run once an hour.

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