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This morning I deleted spam from this account:

trustno1 More than a year member, 0 posts.

In most parts of the forum, I can remove posts, except for Multimedia and Miscellaneous.
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@erwin greven Thanks for dealing with that. I noticed some older accounts are getting taken over and being turned into spam accounts. The 'leak' might be in the Wordpress part of the site, so I have disabled the login page there for the time being.
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PTRACER wrote: 1 week ago @erwin greven Thanks for dealing with that. I noticed some older accounts are getting taken over and being turned into spam accounts. The 'leak' might be in the Wordpress part of the site, so I have disabled the login page there for the time being.
I need to have moderation abilities on all forum parts for this. I can't remove spam on "Site Information" either. So Maspunch's "Optimal Сasual Dating - Actual Women" topic i can not remove.
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I just deleted everyone with 0 posts who haven't browsed the forum this year. That's dropped our member count from 4479 to 1973 members. Maybe these are sleeper spam accounts and something is activating them.
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erwin greven wrote: 1 week ago
PTRACER wrote: 1 week ago @erwin greven Thanks for dealing with that. I noticed some older accounts are getting taken over and being turned into spam accounts. The 'leak' might be in the Wordpress part of the site, so I have disabled the login page there for the time being.
I need to have moderation abilities on all forum parts for this. I can't remove spam on "Site Information" either. So Maspunch's "Optimal Сasual Dating - Actual Women" topic i can not remove.
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PTRACER wrote: 1 week ago
erwin greven wrote: 1 week ago
PTRACER wrote: 1 week ago @erwin greven Thanks for dealing with that. I noticed some older accounts are getting taken over and being turned into spam accounts. The 'leak' might be in the Wordpress part of the site, so I have disabled the login page there for the time being.
I need to have moderation abilities on all forum parts for this. I can't remove spam on "Site Information" either. So Maspunch's "Optimal Сasual Dating - Actual Women" topic i can not remove.
Welcome to the Global Moderators usergroup :thumbsup:
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