Well the clean up is completely understandable. Heck if things got really serious you could go so far as removing people who haven't been online here in 6 months and have fewer than say 5 posts, but it is probably indeed best to see how the removal of zero post accounts goes first. There are probably lots of sub-5 post accounts from spammers who posted once or twice before being banned.

Hi Dark,
Thanks for your concerns. I don't delete low count users, I only delete the users with zero messages that joined over the past weeks. Currently, about 1500 bots join our forum every week. I decided to close the registration for some time, to try to stop them. Brrr....

Ouch indeed, that's a regular autobot army, ---- well their bots, and their automatic ;D.

I do wonder if some form of verrification would help. the monster breeder game at http://monbre.com/?ref=Vincent tells you to write the words I am not a bot into the box in joined up writing when you create an account, ---- or maybe you could direct people on the registration page to go somewhere else to find a verrification code, --- -such as having the register link on the forum as normal, but then a message telling people that the code is on the database entry for a given game, such as fartman or whackamole (a noteable one people would remember).

Obviously image verrification would be desasterous, ---- but if we're getting that! many spambots creating accounts, ---- well obviously something needs to be done.