I deleted the account "STOP THE SPAM" or whatever, because it would have taken my too long to individually delete 33 of his 34 posts.
Here is what he posted
I woke up this morning to find EIGHT pages of spam! There was nothing about pole vaulting to be found anywhere! As you can see it did not take me any effort at all to bomb you with my own spam pleading with you to stop the spam!
It is simple. Make it so you or someone you choose, I am sure there will be a ton of volunteers, has to activate each individual account. There are probably far more fake accounts than real accounts made daily so make it something simple like they have to email a certain email address with their username and say something smart that has to do with pole vaulting. Or put a 24 hour delay on when someone can post. A real pole vaulter or coach will come back, a spammer will move onto the next easiest to crack website.
Heck come up with a tougher question than who is the world record holder! Computers can guess and get it right since you have a 50/50 shot with your drop down bar. Put a question that is easily googled but they have to type, or give more choices.
I don't care how you do it, but this chaos has to stop!!! I was a PVP addict and I am going crazy!!!!
I am really sorry that the spam bots have run loose I try to get on every day to delete them. There are literally hundreds registering every day. There's not a ton I can do. I am limited by the phpBB software that the board is run on. There is an option for me to manually activate accounts, but since there are hundreds registering per day, I often end up deleting valid accounts. I don't know, maybe I will try switching to that. I have CAPTCHAs in place, which do nothing. I have a knowledge question in place, which is obviously not working any more. I can try changing the question and adding more options but I'm not sure how much that will slow things down.
Anyway, I wanted you all to know I am doing the best I can. I am always open to ideas, but please understand that I am not a programmer and I can't just add features out of thin air.