Evil Spamming Bastards

Our company has a community site with a forum, where people can post comments and the like. Over the last few days it’s been beaten to its (metaphorical) knees by a set of spam attacks – roughly 2,000 spam postings, and because of the way the system *cough* “works”, we have to delete them individually, in order to keep the database stable and the system working properly without losing its way and having a bit of a breakdown.

The reason that the spammers are hitting the site so hard is because the person in charge of the website, in his infinite global wisdom, has decided that we must allow unregistered guest users the ability to post comments. Apparently, we don’t want to risk losing users by forcing them to register before they can make comments. So the site’s wide open to spam attack, and that doesn’t matter, according to this fucking genius.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I would think that anyone who wants to make a post and say something is going to be OK with registering. And if you want to be in a community, then you would rather register with that community and see it spam-free instead of having an open community that’s smothered in “nude Paris Hilton” adverts…