Mini Mania forum crushed by spammers

[MPlayle]

I still lurk on the Mini Mania forum just to track what is happening there and check the classifieds.  It has been slowly getting overrun by spammers until today.

The first 5.75 pages of the forum there are all spam posted with today's date!  Even the classifieds are starting to get spam posts.

I would have to say that site is now definitely neglected if not dead.

[94touring]

Just looked, wow!  I bet we've had 20 or so regulars come on over, though not a lot of the newcomers are all that active here.  If I didn't hand select who can be approved this screen shot shows how many spammer bots are trying to infiltrate us.

[MiniDave]

Wow, what a  mess......I think the last time I was on there, seemed to be a lot of answers were being written by AI rather than actual people too.

[MPlayle]

Several folks had noted the "answers by AI" trend there.

I noticed last night they had cleaned out the 5.75 pages of spam.  Today it was back up to 14 pages of spam before the first actual Mini related post.

R.I.P. to that forum.