There are quite a few forums that don't allow links in the first few posts... may-be a tier system would work well??.. captcha/question, Akismet for the first few post and the no links in the first few...  that’d stop most of the people with out punishing the members... just some thoughts for what it's worth... like a hazing for new members/users lol... 

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Calguy didn't post back, but akismet has been back in since yesterday.  He found some quick fixes for the performance issues, and it seems to be working.  As before, we'll continue to watch what gets marked as spam to make sure false positives get fixed quickly.  So far, it's been pretty smooth.

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well.. I posted a few times yesterday... seems all good so far nice work

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For what it's worth... lost a post today... just droped off...

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