I sure hope phpBB 3.0 comes out soon. Or maybe I should just switch to Simple Machine Forums, which was really my original choice for Fetish Lore.
I delete 20 – 30 spam accounts a day. I do it when I get up, when I’m at work, even when I get up in the middle of the night.
I’m so glad that my sites that are powered by Movable Type and WordPress don’t need this attention. How well I remember that first day of the great blog spam flood: 100 junk comments in less than 30 minutes. That was the day I ended allowing open comments on my sites.
maymay | 20-Aug-07 at 6:30 pm | Permalink
I used to keep a phpBB forum open a long time ago. It never gathered much traffic or users but I would also have to deal with the annoying spam issues. One day, however, I awoke to find my forum completely empty. It had been deleted by some script kiddie because I failed to keep it up to date with the countless security patches that come out.
I was not really that saddened since there was little of value on the forum anyway, but I still wish I’d have kept a backup SQL dump somewhere. Fetish Lore really is a wonderful store of thought-provoking comments and I would hate for something like that to be erased from the Internet for any reason at all.