Seems like this forum software is very old one and hence does not offer out of the box spam protection features which most other latest forums software do.
If upgrade is not an option then probably not much automated protection.
I've been saying this for ages now. I suspect because the forum doesn't really earn any money for the site owners, at least as it might've done a decade or so ago when it was busier and actually attracted people to the website more generally, they don't want to spend the money upgrading it.
The News and Reviews section (even accounting for the drop in new cars released to market during the Pandemic times) is a pale shadow of its former self - many 'articles' are re-ups (like the Telegraph's motoring, ahem 'Cars' section) and, in my view, near copies of those on the owners' own site.
I'm currently getting a similar vibe as was the case for many (now gone) forums (across many subjects ones) from the early to mid 2000s - especially the increasing prevelence of fake accounts and spam the moderators and IT people had to deal with, plus decreasing popularity amongst younger users. Many motoring owners' forums are now going the same way.
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