Is it not more convenient for mods to just hit the report button? That’s what I do when I see linkfarm bots. (Never came across this thread before.)
Hi mate, I think the aim of the thread was in case the mods missed any spam around the place… that there was a dedicated thread for members to report any spam to.
As far as I can remember, mods cans and do remove the spam themselves - it is just they’re usually busy dealing with other things in trying to keep the place running, answering queries, and general modding duties etc (and IIRC the ‘Report’ button was also being a little temperamental) - hence the creation of this thread.
This was all before Jay introduced new measures this year to try and reduce the amount of spam (sometimes pages upon pages of it would appear overnight - and would have to be removed by mods one post at a time). The new measures have seemingly seen a vast reduction in the amount of spam appearing here (I retired as a mod here in 2022 - so am just guessing that is the case on past experience).
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