closed million+ monthly forum coz of spammers, now what?
Mc_Big_G: I'll take it! :)  I don't know why you would shut something down that has a decent rank.  When you run a forum, you have to moderate.Spammers can be reduced by requiring a captcha and/or a question they have to answer (What is 3 + 4?).  If they get through, you have to delete them. The absolute best way to handle this is to manually approve each user that signs up and/or ban users with email addresses from certain domains. (Like ones that end in .ru, sorry Russia).  You will learn very fast, just by looking at the email address which ones are valid users.  I've been doing it for years and only had a few spammers get through.With regards to users causing problems, it's your forum. Make everyone aware of your policies and then delete anyone who repeatedly breaks them. Yeah, they'll just sign up again, but they'll get tired of that and just go away at some point. You could always ban their IP too.  You have to be careful since you can affect other users that way, but it can work well enough.Why don't you want to reopen it?  What else could you expect to do with it?  I'm not sure what you are really asking.