As many of you know, this foprum ahs recently been subjected to a sophisticated Spam Bot attack --where a program can post automatically multiple spam messages. Each attack involve about 65 posts, some new discussions and some added to current discussions. Over the past several days I'd estimate that I have deleted over 1000 posts and revoked the user status of about a dozen posters.
The IT agency IWC uses is imnplementing a number of steps to prevent these posts. At least for the time being, this includes disabling the link function. You can't make a post using the little "chain" link icon so a person automatically clicks on your link. Now, you need to just post the link address into your post, and users will have to copy that address to a new window or tab in their browser.
It's slower and not as efficient, and may not be permanent. But we need to do this for the time being to avoid those Spam Bots.
Thanks for your understanding.
