Postby Cogito » Wed Jan 18, 2012 3:00 pm
I know these spammers are idiots, but I suspect even they would realise the pointlessness of putting their spam links on a board with such a small readership.
Perhaps they have got an automated crawler that trawls the web looking for vulnerable php servers, and they don't bother about how big/small the sites are.
But I suspect that the aim is not to get us to respond to the spam, but to get web bots to notice all these links to their sites in the hope it will boost their page rankings.
In any case, having posts from new members go through moderation would eliminate all of this. Having membership applications go through a human approval process would also work.