i had seen maybe one spam in past week or two

ain't that big of deal.

It does happen! I saw it with my very own eyes! Like someone else mentioned, 5 or so blue posts (the ones where they announce a new game or sale) pop to the top and stupid me thinks a GOG worker posted something amazing and then here I am with another cheap pair of Niker© shoes and some handbag. :(

I'm talking about names like the spammers have been using, like "dfghdfgh". Simple keyboard strings that are completely sequential, multiple users in a row.

Spam. Spam. Spam! ;D

Let people who have paid for a game post normally. Otherwise there is a captcha needed for every post or something similar that makes it hard for the spammers to do their thing.

Seems to me they are targeting the News: Threads. Seems that would be an easy fix.

Because cogadh and dfghdfgh are just worlds apart. :P

They are. Cogadh is an actual word (Gaelic word for "war"), dfghdfgh is not.

The point is, it is exceedingly easy to differentiate spammers from legitimate users before they begin spamming, off of simple things like the username. When spammers create accounts, they don't just create a single account, they create multiple accounts at the same time, so that when one does go down after getting caught spamming the forums, they have another already lined up to take its place. When you see one user with a basic text string name like that, there will usually be 3 or 4 more created immediately after that with similar text strings, all from the same IP address or range of IPs. Once you see that, you know you have a spammer and you can delete/block all those user accounts before they ever get used.

dfghdfgh is war. It's a war of the shoes vs your money.

There can only be one.

Winner that is. You get two shoes.