Originally Posted by
OurWorkbench
Looks like they can post them faster than they can be reported, as several lately have posted in five different areas. I have tried reporting all of them one after the other and you have to wait a while between reports.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
Yes, they can. I'm a mod on another board that uses this same software, and we were hit by a spambot. Close to 1000 posts in 15-20 minutes. Not only could the two of us online at the time not keep ahead of it, we were falling further behind every minute. Finally we realized that they weren't making new threads, only posting to open threads. The only way to stop it was to lock every thread on the site. Then we posted an announcement so that people would know what happened, and that if they wanted to continue conversations to open new threads.