[@finalwebsites Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

Hi,

I’m also new to bbpress but I’m using wordpress since a while.

I think that akismet is a good prevention, if you have to much new user registrations made by bots you should protect with

http://recaptcha.net/

and moderate your forum, I wrote this plugin

http://www.finalwebsites.com/bbpress/moderator-notification.php

to get all new posts in my email