Too Many Spammers

I see way more spam here than other forums I participate in.

Spam is generally removed fairly quickly after alerting, but still, the spammers must think it's an easy target here and that appears to be true.

I don't recall what's required to sign up, but maybe the bar can be raised a bit?

I can't imagine that it couldn't be raised just enough to thwart the majority of the spammers and not turn off new users.

EDIT: I just signed up for a new account and wow, you just sign up and start posting. No authentication email, no captcha, just a silly question.

Now, I see why there's more spam here than elsewhere.

Powers that be not interested in making it a little tougher?

 

Ok, too bad, but thanks for the explanation.