It's a lot of work for moderators to remove spam after the fact, and you see it if you are on the site at odd hours before they have had an opportunity to do so. I think there must be some good spam filters that work. I run a couple of web sites and the spam gets relegated to a folder, never appearing on the site, because users have to take more than one step to self-authenticate. I'm somewhat surprised that A-gon has this problem since you have to register to post, but if someone here has IT chops (I don't), they could probably explain how these bots can get on the board without triggering a filter. I suspect the powers that be are probably working on a software solution; however, I gather that this board is custom software, not standard off the shelf platform stuff, so maybe they have more issues than simply buying a plug in to ameliorate it.
Suggestion To The Moderators To Rid This Site Of Spam
The amount of movie etc. spam in the discussion forums is absurd to say nothing of ridiculously annoying. Here is a suggestion to stop this. Charge everyone a small sum to post, say $1-5. If anyone post spam, keep the money. If the moderators deems a post worthy, i.e. not spam, refund the cost of posting, say, once per week/month.
The above idea is not entirely original; Bill Gates once suggested charging everyone 1 cent to send an email. This would automatically disable the mass email spammers.
The above idea is not entirely original; Bill Gates once suggested charging everyone 1 cent to send an email. This would automatically disable the mass email spammers.