When signing up for an account, Include a complicated captha, Then make it a 2 step account verification EMail activation and make them set a profile. Track the IPs and ban by IP.
set up a anti spam bot that detects more than x posts from one user in y time it flags the poster and hides the users post pending admins to review the posts to see if they are spam or not
or set up the Report butten so when x users flag a users first post the user gets flaged so they cant post more and have to wait for admin to release block
Two quick things guys 1. We don't need a new thread about the spam bots every time they fill General with a few pages of spam. The Mod team for the forums is working on banning these guys as quick as they can and deleting the posts so the forums are kept clean. 2. You don't have to report every spam post. Just report one per user, this flags the account for the mods to check out and deal with as soon as they have free time to do so.
Just report it and we will take care of it ASAP, I've alerted the board admins and they're updating the software to try and fix the issue. Thanks