It actually has been much worse over the past few weeks. As my colleagues have pointed out, we are working hard to address the recent attacks, but achieving a good balance between effective prevention and excessive blocking of legit posts is difficult, at best, and some attacks are more challenging to combat than others.

Although you may be seeing the increase, I assure you that what others have said is true: much of what we get hit with disappears from the site in an instant, long before you ever have a chance to lay eyes on it, thanks to the many alerts we receive from members, and the rapid responses of multiple mods operating across all time zones.

It's an exercise in frustration, but we are not just accepting it.