[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by doogie88

It's speed and automation. If they have to wait 15 seconds per account, that's 4 per minute, 240 per hour. That sounds like a lot, but these guys are trying to reach thousands of forums. So it does slow it down a bit. Not enough to stop them though. They can probably just run more instances.

I am still getting spam this morning and have timer set to 18 seconds.

You're assuming the software waits for one forum to finish before moving on to another. There is no logical reason they couldn't hit 100 forums at once and even if they wait 30 seconds, that is 100 forums * 2 a minute * 60 minutes = 1200 an hour. Slowing down the time it takes to register is a trivial change that will have a negligible impact in the long run.