In my opinion, the time delay due to requiring of moderator approval for posts will kill this site.
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I am hoping this turns out to be a shorter term solution. We are very sorry for the inconvenience.
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Thank you Carolyn. I hope the computer gurus can find a fix.
It will. I’ve seen it in other forums.
The REAL solution is to stop the attacks BEFORE they happen. Right now it looks like anyone or bot can just register as a user. Even something as simple as Captcha will stop this threat. Also each person should need moderator approval. The new user will need a VALID Email and there will be a human interaction between new user and moderator staff to approve all new users. Once approved they can post til there hearts content - UNLESS they abuse that privilege. It’ll be a lot easier to just approve each new user then approve every post or comment.
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If all posts need Moderator approval that is unfair to Carolyn and John as both have full time jobs . I suspect this approval thing is a knee jerk reaction to the mass Spamming recently. Making things difficult for the long term members is not the answer.
I posted after the spam attack and it was on line in a few minutes
Thanks, Steve. We’re all on this now, and hope to keep the posts going up fast.
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I’m a longtime forum member, and I’m very grateful for our support folks. Thank you for what you’re doing to keep CarTalk Community going. I don’t mind waiting for new posts. 
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Captcha will keep me out, I am terrible at them.
You only need it one time to create the account. And there are several types of Captcha being used. Some are easier than others.
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The gridded photos are easy. The weird alphanumeric combinations are too difficult. I haven’t seen them in a while though.
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