[quickthrower2]

Not only that but a new vector is like a gold rush. It's a virus infected a new host that hasn't developed an immune response.

A new vector (probably) hasn't built hardness yet against spam, like for example email with apps like Gmail filtering out most spam and SPF etc.

If you start a forum, you expect spam, and there will be tools in the forum software to deal with it. But something new that isn't a traditional place to spam may be caught off guard.

[aahhahahaaa]

Yeah you have to assume that if a user can input anything, someone will use it to spam. Text, photos, video, audio... literally any form of user input.

[Avamander]

I've recently started getting spam via various service providers' password reset e-mails.

"Hi buy this pill quick and cheap from http://here*, you requested a password reset"

Hhhhhhrrrrgh

[aahhahahaaa]

Oh wow that's even better than analytics referrer spam.

[quickthrower2]

I suspect there are bots that go looking for forms to fill in without knowing what the context is, i.e. they'll target anything with an input tag.