I sent a PM to Walleye_Rick and here is his reply! I sent this last night and was answered today. I had been noticing things changing for the last several weeks and also noticed a huge increase in the number of people registering.
Here is the reply and followed by the original PM. So be forewarned.



Walleye_Rick
Administrator
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Re: New members

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Yes, the site was hacked and it's been a nightmare. Trying to get back to normal. Thanks for your patience.





Quote:
Originally Posted by wakina
Whats up with all of the new members signed in and everyone of them are not actively searching or even reading any of the threads. The only ones who are actually viewing threads are the regular users who are easy to recocnize.

Right now there are 81 members signed in and all but 2 are Viewing the Index for walleye.com Forums. It has been like that for several hours.

I randomly click on about 25 of the members to view their profile and everyone of them had just signed up on 12/04/2014. Thought maybe the site had been hacked again and wanted to make you aware of the new users.