Site Spam/Cleaning [December 20 2011]

[[TTC]Pleiades]

As some of you probably noticed the site/forums got absolutely HAMMERED with spam and bogus account registrations.

I removed almost 2000 accounts and nearly as many posts/entries related to them this evening. Even with using raw database tricks it was a solid 7 hours to get things back to normal. In the process I'm sure I removed a couple valid accounts. If your account was removed, I'm very very sorry and if I can find the info, I'll e-mail you and let you know to re-register.

Unfortunately the registration 'human' test hasn't been stopping bogus account registrations. I'm working on resolving that and turned off registration abilities for now until I can get this resolved.

As for the site, it should be back to normal at this time except for a few residual "Guest" entries on topics. This is because I performed a lot of raw database cleaning to speed up the process.