I mean, spam will always happen there's really no avoiding it. But over the past month or so it's increased a lot. A few nights ago I saw one thread copy-pasta'd at least 5 times across multiple sections of the forum. You guys usually do a really good job of getting rid of them / moving them to off topic. But it must get annoying.

Maybe it's time to put some restrictions on new accounts? Like not allowing them to create threads unless they post a certain number of times or something similar?

Just food for thought.