Originally Posted by
Matt
Hi everyone,
This community, like most online ones, is a target for spam bots. You don't like them, we don't like them. Just be thankful you can't see all of the spam the various mods delete.
To minimise their presence, I'm bringing back a measure that we had on the old forums.
Namely, those who have less than fives posts will have reduces privileges than others. Users who have less than five posts will be unable to have a signature, start new threads or use the private/visitor message systems. Hopefully, this should cut right back on the spambots.
Introducing this measure, however, may cause some short term hiccups. It takes an hour, minimum, for users to be migrated to a new user group (which will happen automatically to all of your accounts). So, if you find that your account suddenly loses some abilities then please wait for an hour just in case the system needs to catch up. If something is still wrong, then please let us know and we'll see to fixing it right up.