Quote Originally Posted by Prussian Iron View Post
i know that, i just didn't think that random bot acounts could be set up and spam porn and adverts because of it.
they can, the people behind spam advertising make a science out of producing forum spamming bots, and anywhere that can have replies posted will be targeted

most forum sites have a variety of different mechanisms like 'read this image and type out the letters' as protections when new accounts are made or first posts with URLs /images are posted, to try and sort the bots from the humans.... I suspect some of our protections broke when the site last went down but are hopefully due to be fixed soon, so normal service should be resumed...