Very strange posts today

[Katharine]

Two sets of odd posts today by Florencehyng & Adrianayng, think I’ve got the names right

[jtaylor]

Thanks for reporting. Have removed and banned the users. Clearly spam!

[Katharine]

Two more strangers making spam posts today

[jtaylor]

Thanks for flagging - have banned/moved the posts.

J

[Katharine]

Another one at it today! Ifuhd or possibly 1fuhd

Is it any use blocking their IP? We’ve had to do a lot of blocking on another phpBB forum where I’m a Moderator. This post in the phpBB forum is from our techy Moderator https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p16086589. I see we had a spurious high water mark in September, no way more than 10k real people were on this forum!

[jtaylor]

That's really helpful, thanks.
I've been blocking by IP address individually, but I've added those IPs to the block list too now - let's hope it stems the flow.

Thanks for the input - really helpful

J