Forum closure due to technical issue

[Shawn Gossman]

Have you ever had such a bad technical experience that you closed down a forum or website because of it?

If so, tell us about it.

Here's my story. I recently installed Mediawiki on my server to make my own Wiki site for an outdoor brand. I forgot to add anti-spam edits. The other day I had 500,000+ pages of spam and over 80,000 spammers accounts.

I tried to use NUKE but it was barely putting a dent in it.

So, I deleted the software off my server LOL.

Let's hear your stories!

 

[Cloaked]

I installed wwwboard as a test to move my forum off the scripts I created for it. I wound up going to UBB instead. I had forgot about the wwwboard install. It got spammed to death. back then spam wasn't a real issue. This was just a bunch of ascii artists using it as their playground. I turned off posting and left it for a while. I liked ascii art and some of it was very good.