Registration spamming?

[Lawrence]

Someone has recently tried (on two occasions) to register 20-45 new user accounts at the same time.  If I hadn't noticed the activity on the mail server they'd probably have succeeded.  I've taken a few new security steps to try and prevent this from happening in the future, but I'm left to wonder: why?  What could they have hoped to achieve, especially with a forum that lets unregistered members post?

Any ideas?

[Martin]

Hmm, I registered my name 3 times lol ^_^ because I kept f.ucking up the registration

But I didnt do anything like that :blink:

Maybe they were automated regs?

[Lawrence]

Well it was certainly automated, but why?

Unconfirmed regs are turfed after a few hours, so if you don't get your email and sign up, you won't be clogging up the system with half-done apps, no worries.