As many of you will have noticed, Batter's Box is under attack by spammers seeking to use us to boost their search engine rankings. Their posts consist of a bunch of links and keywords, over and over and over again. In the last few days it has gone from an occassional annoyance to a constant deluge.
To attempt to combat this, we've had to ban a whole range of IP addresses, so if you've found yourself suddenly banned from posting you are simply a civillian casualty in what is increasingly becoming a war. But all is not lost: drop one of us roster members a line and we can see to it that your IP is unbanned as quickly as humanly possible.
By the way, this spam attack is why the Hot Topics list is filled with ghosts of the past: when we delete the spam, the article is still considered to have been recently updated.
I know that a lot of our readers out there are not only tech savvy but creative thinkers. To that end, if anyone has any ideas as to what we can do to end this problem -- after all, banning an IP address works for about ten minutes, until the spammer gets him or herself a new one -- we're all ears.
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