Forum Spam, Registration & Posting for New Members

[antinet]

In light of the spam attack on the forum today we've decided to make a few changes.

The spam today was a combination of advertising plus "darknet will live forever" & "can't stop crime or drugs" type of posts. Seems someones interests are being hurt by our ongoing operations which we're more than happy to see. We personally see it as motivation to continue further and think bigger in terms of disruption.

Although the attack itself was amateurish (can you really call it spam if you're manually registering accounts?) we thought it was a good time to change how registrations and posting works here. New members will need to have a certain number of posts approved before they can post without approval. In addition we've added some spam filters and other unnamed improvements to help combat some of the spam for those who get past initial defenses too.


antinet