Leaf covered trail, Wayside Prairie County Park, Isanti, Minnesota

AustinMN, on November 1, said:

Wayside Prairie Park (which has no prairie) is under the juristiction of Isanti County Parks.

AustinMN, on November 3, said:

Thanks, Galatas. I'm sharper than to be taken by that sort of stuff. Whatever the team was working on, they're chasing a spamer now...

Galatas, on November 3, said:

I think we're all going to be kept busy deleting these damned things from our albums. Never mind , it will give us something to do while we are waiting for our photos to be reviewed :)

AustinMN, on November 3, said:

Well, most of my photos have been reviewed, so I'm waiting for an upload to GE.

The way most forums deal with this kind of stuff is three-fold:

1) The new user must go to their email box and respond to a link sent by the forum in order for their account to work. This forces them to have an email account for each forum account.

2) The user must enter the characters that are displyed (they are displayed in a bitmap that is very noisy or distorted, so that character recognition software can't easily do it).

3) The IP address of posters is actively logged, so that a problem IP address can be blocked (until they get a new IP address).

Personally, I'd raise the comment time limit to 1 minute (temporarily). If that doesn't slow them down, raise it to 5 minutes.

Galatas, on November 3, said:

I'm still in the queue. Nothing reviewed since 3rd Sept :(

AustinMN, on November 3, said:

At least, as far as we know, you're still in the queue. The team may be having a few brews tonight to celebrate clearing up the backlog, and none of us would know.

I forced myself to upload more photos so that I would know if I got more reviews before the backlog was cleared up.