It only talks 2 seconds to edit a post of this nature which I'm sure they could spare.  If that's too much to ask then make me a mod and I'll do it for them. 

Quoting DJ Doena:

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Hey Ken, could you please clean up this forum section? The top 20 threads here are almost all spam threads. Thanks

It's more like the entire 1st page now.

Ken?

In a way, because it isn't pinned, I see this topic as being a bit spammy as well (is that even a word? ) because it stays on the first page near the top also pushing down legitimate questions.

One other downside to not swooping in quickly enough to deal with spam is, if it is true that topics can't be deleted if someone has posted them (I'm not sure why this would be the case or why it couldn't be fixed) some of the spammers come in and add their post to random topics usually from the first page which, if the original topic was spam, the new spam post has locked it into place.

Time for Ken to once again break out his ban hammer.

Why those spam thread aren't at least locked since it seems to be too hard to delete them. It's really ridiculous when the spammers start to answer to each other.

This section of the forum needs a solid anti-spam protection policy. What exists now is obviously a failure evidenced by all the spammers.

I've voiced a suggestion a couple of times previously that works almost 100% of the time in other forums, but it's up to Ken to implement something.

Quoting Astrakan:

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I know it's been floated as a forum-wide policy, but this section really ought to have some kind of auto-moderation going on based on red arrows.

That would probably work too.

I doubt we need a forum-wide solution however, since Spam really only occurs in this section. You need to have a paid subscription in order to post elsewhere in the forum, and most Spammers probably aren't here to pay and give themselves away.

bump - to remind everyone to read and follow the first message in this thread