Okay, I made a huge dent in the spam in the Caribbean Room. The latest real topics are now on the top of the list. More cleaning to do, but at least the spam is not at the top of the list anymore.

Now I made a huge dent in the Pirate Room.  The top 2/3 of the first page are now real posts.  It's almost 3 in the morning, so I probably should get some sleep.

I'll attack more this weekend.  Night.

I made a dent in the Caribbean Recipes forum area, but there is still a lot to delete.

We are going to be upgrading to a new version of the forums, and that has much much much better spam fighting tools, both for removing spam that already is on the forums, and preventing spam in the first place.

Upgrading the forums is a major process, so I am going to have to schedule time for that, and it will result in some downtime for the site.

Thanks!  So much more to go though.  But we will get this cleaned up.  

Spammers decided to hit us with a ton of spam overnight.  So I spent the last hour or so cleaning up again.  I wonder if they are trying to discourage me.

I turned on topic moderation for new users and certain forums to discourage them from creating new accounts and posting.  Their posts simply won't show up to the public, because a moderator has to approve it first.

Hopefully that should help.  New controls are coming that would help even more.