Scrubs: "I had to manually delete 100s of advertising posts from the forum.. What can you do to prevent real people (no bots) from doing that... I will write a script later to resync the forum stats. you may have heaps of threads marked as unread for now."

I hope I didn't screw anything up for myself, I had them all read so I went through all the "unread" posts and "read" them...

Thanks, I didn't see that notice. I did the same as Masman8675 and opened all the "unread" threads to mark them as "read". I am a mod on a very small forum but we do get a lot of spam on there so I know how annoying it is to have to deal with that.