The bad guys make it tough for all of us
Recently we have had a rash of new users with email addresses using qawab.com for their domain. None of these users have posted anything or even visited after they signed up. I've also been receiving a lot of spam at my email address on GotSpeech.Net. A little investigation (means I Googled) shows that these two things are related. They are evidently created by bots for some purpose but I'm sure they are up to no good.
So...I've banned the offending user accounts and I have temporarily set the new user roles up so that all new users need admin approval. I will do my best to monitor and stay on top of new member registrations so that they can get approved as soon as possible. Perhaps in a week or so after these attempts stop I can remove the approval requirement.
I don't like doing this and it is something that I have managed to avoid for 8 months now but I have to stop this. Please bear with me for a few days then hopefully we can get back to normal.
Note: I have one more domain that I'm investigating and I may have to ban it also.