A Potential Solution to Endless Spam

[Eli]

Hey dudes,

As you guys have probably noticed the TouchArcade forums have been overrun by spam lately. This is the unfortunate side effect of how fortunate we've been with the growth of the site and the forums. This forum is busy enough with enough users and a high enough Google rank that it's highly advantageous for spammers to just go nuts.

I've recruited a bunch of TA regulars who have either been around forever, have a high post count, spend a ton of time on the forums, or a mixture of the three. These people now have access to a forum plugin that allows them to nuke spammers as soon as they notice pooping threads all over the place.

I think things will be a lot better now, as this will substantially increase our spam deletion bandwidth, and now we've got people all over North America, Asia, and Europe keeping an eye on things so we shouldn't have any more of those annoying nights where all the mods go to bed and we get hammered with 500 new spam threads.

So, let's see how things go.