The microsite set up by Puffin to help promote Kevin Brooks' latest novel Being is being routinely hit by porn spammers.
It's a mystery to ACHUKA that a site that must be costing the publisher a pretty penny cannot stamp this out.
Here is a screenshot taken at 8.15pm Sunday evening, showing the extent of the problem.
This is what you get if you click the 'Join the debate' link. Not quite what Carnegie 'shadowers' will be expecting!
If you actually venture into the forum you will find that the issue of porn spamming was first addressed a couple of months ago. Puffin's complacency in this matter is extremely surprising.
We're pleased to see that Penguin/Puffin have now disabled the forum, pending solution to the problem.