I know it's annoying and frustrating but all you can do at the moment is keep reporting them and staff will keep on nuking them. I hope the bot will be back soon and an update has been requested as it's badly needed, especially as these bots are now going to be spamming the forum instead of just PMs, but I don't know what the error is exactly and if it was simple then it probably would have been fixed by now.
@hilariousetc,can you please request theymos to implement or at least consider this :-
There is this thing which detects your original IP even if you use VPN or anything, so if you're banned, you cannot access your account/s even if you use VPN. Simple as that. If this feature gets implemented, then people won't have to fuss about shit posters.
I had mentioned this in another thread couple of days ago, if cloudfare is going to block bots, alternatives must be taken into consideration at the very least. If this is implemented, users won't have to spend so much time on reporting users who copy paste, shitpost, create alt accounts to irritate users via pm, create Ann threads every day with their legion of accounts, and the list goes on and on. So if they are banned once, they are banned forever. Workload on staff would considerably reduce. But I don't know how hard this will be to implement.