Thanks, Knytiri! And ooo, Brax is special now! That's new, right? If so, congratulations on your promotion, Brax! If not, sorry, I wasn't paying attention.

Wow I was really feeling sorry for Knytiri and Mods. Have never seen spamming this bad. Want to commend you for fixing this silliness and hope that monitoring 10 replies from new members will solve the problem. Thanks.

So, there's gonna be some changes going on around here...

I updated security protocols and changed our captcha system as much as I could, and made a few other changes.

New users won't be able to post without approval until they have a post count of 25 - that means a moderator will literally have to look at your post and say yes or no before it's posted. No more spam from new bot accounts - period. Hopefully this will eliminate the spam that does manage to get through the updated protocols and new captcha.

Of course, this is inconvenient for some new members, but please look at the state of the forum currently (some 3,000 spam posts) and understand steps HAVE to be taken.

I will also be reaching out to a select couple people with some moderator offers. We're going to restructure the forum and add some new categories and services. If you have some special skills (excellent design skills, for example, and like to make forum signatures), post it up here! We're getting rid of the spam and expanding. (Hopefully. I really don't want to eat these words... stupid spambots.)

So yeah. That's my task today. I'm sorry if you're expecting an email from me directly today, there's a bit of a chance I just may not get to it today for a while.

Thank you all.... and may the Forge be with you!

Joshua S.