Community Coding Project

When EK says he's tried hacking, he means he's been trying to grab files on CMC that he shouldn't have access to, not that he's been spambotting the forums.

The spambotting most likely comes from some external company/service that'll charge some $00s to provide a few tens of thousands of backlinks to their customers via automated posting on just as many different forums or social networking sites or whatever. Whoever's benefitting from those links being posted almost certainly neither knows that this particular forum is being affected nor particularly cares.