Seathre

If your spam prevention measures utilize a database, such as StopForumSpam, or other similar services, it's certainly not very reliable. This is just my opinion, however I feel using something like Google's ReCaptcha is the most reliable solution, and is typically not a terrible burden for users. Unless something like that is implemented, I'm afraid these bots are going to continue capitalizing on the situation.

There's no exploit, it's simply the fact that no form of spam prevention is required to make an account, therefore it's very easy for any botnet to register accounts and post spam. All they need to do is require a captcha on account creation, then the problem will be solved. EDIT: Oh look, it's Love Specialist Baba Ji

I do however hope this is addressed soon, since the spammers just keep on spamming. When mods aren't on especially, it seems to get quite bad.

I believe we are still waiting for manual fixes.

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I've logged in and out of my forum account several times over the last few days, and I'm certain the game is properly linked to my Steam account. I'm not sure what else to try.

Sorry to piggy back, but I'm also having issues with getting the badge. I'm certain that I've linked my Steam account, and I've logged out several times, as well as waited several hours. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198000424164