Can we do something about the spam?

[MeanSquaredError]

It's a tough battle, deleting spammers every day. Will look into removing the mybb mentions like tommiehansen suggested.

askmike, you can try the following:

1. Edit the forum post form and add a hidden field with an empty value.

2. Add a mouseover and touch events to the submission button and in these events populate the button with some value.

3. In the server-side code that handles new threads and thread replies add a check whether the hidden field contains the populated value. If the hidden field does not have the populated value just silently drop the posting without displaying any error.

I did this on my own phpbb forum and this worked great eliminating all spam. There is no guarantee that it will work for you, but it is worth trying.