Unfortunately some shouldn't be on the site - I don't know how many posts I have deleted recently

You're welcome, Sir!

On a serious note, both Sandy and I, and OTB too, delete a number of rogue posts when we find them. Unfortunately it happens that some spammers are more clever than we are and whatever we delete simply reappears, loaded from some unsuspecting member with an infected computer. At this stage we alert the webmaster and he then has the very difficult task of tracking the offending computer and blocking the information. Sometimes this may result in a perfectly legitimate member of the forum being blocked too, with no means of communication on the forum.

So, if ever someone is blocked and feels agrieved, simply contact any of the moderators who will do their very best to get things straightened out. In the case of Mcwomble it took less than a day, and welcome back.

Congrats to the Forum - Now 500 members strong

It's good to see we now have 500 in our community   

Guys you need to make some very simple changes to your board to stop spammers, on the English forum we get none, indeed, none. We simply implemented a couple a bot stoppers and we get no spam. You will still get bots try to register but the scripts will stop them.  Look to;

http://ndickson.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/how-to-stop-simple-machines-forum-spam/

or

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=544

or
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=427488

It works.

Steve

Wow Eddie I nearly smiled at that one

Saying that, the enthusiasm for forums does seem to have waned a little in recent years including the Scottish forum I note though that is more active than the English one.

bit of sarcasm lost there perhaps