more and more spammers

whats going on today we made it quite a while without spam and then i logged on today and what do i see
4 spam messages,1 day, one section
definiteley not cool

It's sadly part of life now young zach,It's a living for some and a scam for others,if you want global cheap access then we have to put up with some of it.
Ban the bastards Tom.........

I'm not sure you can do it with the platform this website is built on, but on a lot of blogs (ex. many in the the SBNation family of blogs) there is a 24 hour waiting period after you join the site before you are able to post. This seems to discourage almost all spam.

The truth is we have not gone without spam for a while. We're getting it every day, and usually a couple of times a day. It usually gets deleted before too many people see it.
With the way registration works now, you would think it would slow down the spammers. You have to enter a code that changes every time someone registers, but the spammers don't seem to have a problem with it.
The 24 hour idea wouldn't work since most of the spammers don't leave spam the same day they register.

Busy day today Tom,If you want someone living in a different time zone then give me a call

They really came back with a vengeance during the night.
I have a theory of what type of person the spammers are.
During the weeks around Christmas we didn't have any spam. As if they all went away.
Could it be quite a few spammers are actually students in college spamming from their dorms?
(I'm not saying that the typical college student is a spammer)

One of them was on the site today for ages,quite a busy spammer that one

Why is it called "spam"??????

Ahhh...that was actually quite interesting, thanks Tom.

eresting also i never knew that spam got deleted so quickly i just thought that it has been slow. any case keep up the good work tom

Great....I'm starting to see a new type of Spammer now. Spammers who actually try to be relevant to a legitimate post.
I saw two yesterday, and one this morning.

Me too Tom,Can someone send a bloody dictionary to zack ffs

Out in force again,Where are you Tom....Where's my Magnum!!!