A seperate subforum might be a bit of a overkill. As Peter pointed out it might be a better solution to allow museums to post their own dedicated threads, unless there is real demand for it.

Scramble,

We did have a group of IP addresses trying to hack a large number of forum accounts. They do this because our anti-spam measures do not allow spammers to open their own account. We have since blocked the IP range and you should no longer receive such notifications.

We endeavour to improve security always. I am aware of the issue but rest assured we’re working on blocking the IP addresses.

WebMaster

Merged threads. Keep it clean and friendly please.

Regards,
WebMaster

Hi hampden98,

I’ve tried the forum using Firefox and cannot replicate the drop down menu flashing/flickering. Can you point me in the direction of which one you’re having an issue with? Are you using the latest browser version?
There aren’t any javascript tracking counters. Some of the adverts you see may be java based but I’m not experiencing slow downs on any pages forum wide. It might be worth clearing your browser cache if you haven’t done it for a while.

Regards,
WebMaster

Jim,

We believe the reasoning behind all of this is simple. Normally these spammers can gain access to the forum by creating their own registration then spam away on the forum as they see fit. The anti-spam restrictions at registration are tougher than ever and as a result they cannot gain access. We think they are trying to gain access to your accounts, to then spam the forum. My suggestions is to not have simple passwords such as “password” or similar. Hopefully they’ll get bored soon and realise they won’t be able to gain access. We’ve now blocked their IP address ranges so hopefully that will be the end of it.

We hope that this doesn’t deter users from using the forum.

Regards,
Admin

To all whom have been involved with the attempted logins,

We are aware of spammers trying to access some peoples accounts. This is most likely due to the anti-spam measures used at registration point are now tougher than ever. We can’t stop them all although we are blocking IP address to the site as we find those who are attempting logins on genuine accounts. Please message myself or any of the Moderators with any IP addresses from emails you’ve received from the forum and we’ll make sure they added to the blacklist too.

Thank you for making us aware of it.

Admin

Smilies just come up on my iPad as blue squared question marks if the webby is reading 🙂

They are selected on BTW .

Nice improvements too

Smilies now fixed. Thanks for pointing it out
🙂 😎 :p
Webmaster

We are trying to get this resolved as quickly as possible. I appreciate this has dragged on but we are still waiting for answers so if you can bear with us a bit longer.

Cheers
Richard