XF 2.2 Inquiry about spam logs

[Myck]

Hello, I hope you are very well.

I have a question about a problem with spam in my forum:

It turns out that I have a forum for a year that I started to organize it by nodes, to modify the styles etc., however, due to time problems I left it paused and did not continue.

A year later I have 288 registrations to approve, they are all spam, but what intrigues me the most is that 4 users (spam) managed to create around 20 spam threads on one node.

Now my question is: How is it that they managed to publish threads? if at no time have I approved the registration of any user.

I would be grateful if you could comment on your experiences or if there is any risk of losing my entire forum and what complement would you recommend to eradicate spam.

 

[Paul B]

Do all accounts have to be manually approved?

If not, then some of the spam accounts will have been able to register and post - not all of them get caught by the spam filters.

You can use the spam cleaner to remove the accounts and clean up the spam posts.

 

[Myck]

Do all accounts have to be manually approved?

That's right, I have the forum configured so that all accounts are approved, that's the strange thing and what worries me.