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Clearly the bots have seen my divorce thread.
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Hacked account? Been around for 3 years.
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We have another one on this forum. Also a hacked account. Maybe it would be usefull to delete accounts that did not post a single time and are older than one year.
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erwin greven wrote: ↑5 months ago We have another one on this forum. Also a hacked account. Maybe it would be usefull to delete accounts that did not post a single time and are older than one year.
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This morning I deleted spam from this account:

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In most parts of the forum, I can remove posts, except for Multimedia and Miscellaneous.
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@erwin greven Thanks for dealing with that. I noticed some older accounts are getting taken over and being turned into spam accounts. The 'leak' might be in the Wordpress part of the site, so I have disabled the login page there for the time being.
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PTRACER wrote: ↑5 months ago @erwin greven Thanks for dealing with that. I noticed some older accounts are getting taken over and being turned into spam accounts. The 'leak' might be in the Wordpress part of the site, so I have disabled the login page there for the time being.
I need to have moderation abilities on all forum parts for this. I can't remove spam on "Site Information" either. So Maspunch's "Optimal Сasual Dating - Actual Women" topic i can not remove.
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I just deleted everyone with 0 posts who haven't browsed the forum this year. That's dropped our member count from 4479 to 1973 members. Maybe these are sleeper spam accounts and something is activating them.
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erwin greven wrote: ↑5 months ago
PTRACER wrote: ↑5 months ago @erwin greven Thanks for dealing with that. I noticed some older accounts are getting taken over and being turned into spam accounts. The 'leak' might be in the Wordpress part of the site, so I have disabled the login page there for the time being.
I need to have moderation abilities on all forum parts for this. I can't remove spam on "Site Information" either. So Maspunch's "Optimal Сasual Dating - Actual Women" topic i can not remove.
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PTRACER wrote: ↑5 months ago
erwin greven wrote: ↑5 months ago
PTRACER wrote: ↑5 months ago @erwin greven Thanks for dealing with that. I noticed some older accounts are getting taken over and being turned into spam accounts. The 'leak' might be in the Wordpress part of the site, so I have disabled the login page there for the time being.
I need to have moderation abilities on all forum parts for this. I can't remove spam on "Site Information" either. So Maspunch's "Optimal Сasual Dating - Actual Women" topic i can not remove.
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merged.
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