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WFG has not created the forum software, so we are limited by what options are available in the software. And at least as far as I have seen I haven't found any such options sadly.

I'm not 100% sure. It might be the link. I've changed settings etc to try and limit the spam posts, but it's hard to find the exact spot where we have as few spam posts as possible, but also no issues for genuine forum members, so sometimes topics/posts are held for moderator approval which shouldn't. As soon as a moderator has time to approve it it should show up though

It is changed

I can take care of it. Do you want your old posts to be deleted as well, or are you ok with them remaining?

It's not possible to register more than one account with the same email address, the more problematic bots create tens/hundreds of email addresses which are different, but similar. Many of them follow the formula of oneword_another@example.com, so I've thought about whether we should make it impossible to register with an email address containing an underscore, but as with so many counter-measures I think that might cause trouble for genuine users, so I doubt that would be a good idea.

Have these emails been sent recently? (As in the last few days? There was a bunch of these messages sent out a little while ago, but the account that was behind those was banned, and new accounts blocked from sending private messages, so this specific scam should not happen again.) And yeah, Wildfire Games is not and will not be handing out iPads or other things at all.

Hello, I'm not 100% sure, but I would guess that's leftover from the old wiki, and I think it might have been a default page just talking about basic formatting etc, so it's not a big loss. You might want to take that as your first project: creating the Help page and figuring out what goes on there as you figure the wiki out. I would presume the first step would be to ask for edit/create permissions though, as that doesn't seem to come automatically. I'm not sure who to ask though, maybe @Stan` ?

Ok, it has been changed

He didn't want to have it anymore, but wanted his posts to stay around.

Yeah, we're certainly intending to remove them. I just mean it's easy to see for us even if no one reports it

I'm not going to say you shouldn't report spam posts, but I will say that generally it's not difficult to see which threads are spam threads, so it's not a big deal if they aren't reported. We are grateful for all posts in other topics though, they are harder to find when e.g. looking through the new posts page.

I’ve disabled PMs for new users. I would have preferred not to, but I think it’s more important to protect people from scammers than to make things convenient for new users. Maybe we should require posts from new users to be checked by moderators before posting. But I am less certain about that. It’s basically the same amount of work for moderating the forums (maybe a bit more, but not much), but I think it would be quite a bit more inconvenient for actual new users, especially if they come here to get help with the game and then they don’t see their post. I feel like that would be frustrating.

I've changed it for you.

I just wrote that as an explanation for why I had edited your post, so no need for you to do anything (For another time though: if you have a long piece of text you can put it inside a spoiler - click the eye symbol in the little area where you write/edit a post - that way anyone who wants/needs to read it can, but it won't make the post very long to scroll through if someone wants to read replies etc.)

I'm sure someone else has got a more informed solution, but just to rule out the obvious/easy ones: have you tried reinstalling the game? Have you checked that the drivers for your graphics card are updated?