Users of Tabulas, feel proud! I have shut down new user registrations. Fighting spam on Tabulas has been an evolving battle - first they targeted comments (which has largely improved). Then when I shut that down, they wised up and started registering new sites and actually posting spammy journals. I've written tools that aggregate new posts on a daily basis on Tabulas - I manually review sites and ban them. On average, there were about 20 sites per days I had to ban.

But the number seems to be increasing. I ban them the day they sign-up (I even send them a nasty automated email), but they keep seem to register new accounts. I don't know if they're stupid or just trying to piss me off, but enough is enough.

When I get some time, I'll open up Tabulas user registrations by limited invite-only; that way, if a spammer gets into the system, I can figure out how he got invited and kill that tree.

A shame that spammers have to ruin this for everyone.