[chrishajer]

With all those links in the posts, it appears that akismet is not working. Do you have an akismet ket and is it entered in your config.php? That would prevent the posts loaded with links, in any case.

Regarding the registrations, there is a “Human Test” plugin that might help:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/signupregistration-captcha#post-13429

Or, maybe something more complex like a CAPTCHA:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spam-registration#post-11879

Or this tip:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12246

Just search this forum for registration and you’ll see lots of approaches to handling it.