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[antymattar]

Then what do you suggest we do? The moat isn't filled yet and the cages aren't ready! Fine... unleash the Interpol!

[Johuotar]

Wait, people click the links? Really? Wow.

I must confess that I have clicked spammer link once because of curiosity.
I'm sorry, I didn't think it could do harm. 

[Bauglir]

Now I feel guilty for making that comment.

[Ottofar]

I for one was not aware of the 504-thing, and yeah. Not doing that anymore.

[Aerval]

Just another suggestion:
Could it be forbidden for escaped lunatics or similar to post links? I am not sure whether that is possible how the board works but it should stop spammers as they are?

[Ghills]

Dwarf Fortress is his life's work, not this forum, so I expect that, if the forum became especially disorderly, Mr. Adams would decommission it entirely, and I would think that the best solution. There are other ways to receive bug reports and feature requests.

The forums are the main reason I am still playing DF.  DF may be Toady's life work, but in order to live he has to get paid, which means getting and keeping people interested.

[Flying Dice]

Dwarf Fortress is his life's work, not this forum, so I expect that, if the forum became especially disorderly, Mr. Adams would decommission it entirely, and I would think that the best solution. There are other ways to receive bug reports and feature requests.

The forums are the main reason I am still playing DF.  DF may be Toady's life work, but in order to live he has to get paid, which means getting and keeping people interested.

Agreed. I stopped playing DF actively quite a while ago, but this is still the main forum I go to, and if it were gone I really wouldn't have much motivation to come back to the game in the future.

[Zrk2]

Dwarf Fortress is his life's work, not this forum, so I expect that, if the forum became especially disorderly, Mr. Adams would decommission it entirely, and I would think that the best solution. There are other ways to receive bug reports and feature requests.

The forums are the main reason I am still playing DF.  DF may be Toady's life work, but in order to live he has to get paid, which means getting and keeping people interested.

Agreed. I stopped playing DF actively quite a while ago, but this is still the main forum I go to, and if it were gone I really wouldn't have much motivation to come back to the game in the future.

I still play it a little bit every now and then, mostly because of the forums, and my eternally building Armok Cathedral.

[Neonivek]

I just thought...

While Toady is against general moderators.

What if he had a moderator(s) that ONLY dealt with overt Spam?

Trolling, Flaming, and all that jazz will still be delt by Toady and Threetoe (and Fox guy in the fox forum) and even then any moderation they did could still require a double check by Toady later.

[Lectorog]

We've another spam thread. It went unresponded to for 15 minutes. That might be a new record.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=93950.0 (link will probably not work)
Oddly enough, it's advertising a Facebook page for Disney trading pins.

I just thought...

While Toady is against general moderators.

What if he had a moderator(s) that ONLY dealt with overt Spam?

Trolling, Flaming, and all that jazz will still be delt by Toady and Threetoe (and Fox guy in the fox forum) and even then any moderation they did could still require a double check by Toady later.

This sounds overly complicated and not much better than we have now. Best-case, we would have a crew spaced over time zones so that spam threads were deleted within a few minutes of their creation. That's really not worth the effort it would take.

I agree that one or more moderators would really help around here - not just for spam, but for any reported incidents - so that Toady wouldn't have to waste his time on it. Moderator appointing is just too much trouble, though. The system now is probably the best.

I don't think anything needs to be done with the entry system either. If a bot can bypass Captcha, there's not much use in making something harder. If it's people making the accounts, changing anything wouldn't do any good. I do say that there should be something like a monthly clean-up of accounts without posts. Even if they aren't all necessarily going to spam, it still clutters up the forums.

[Jacob/Lee]

The only trouble comes when I have to delete a 100 post thread people have been playing in a bit too much, since that 504s the board for a minute.

Oh... Shoot... I'll remember to avoid posting in spambot threads now. The mystery of the 504s has been solved thanks to the The Great.

[Heron TSG]

The concept of a 'boterator' (I like this new lingo.) who can only move threads might just work. Move threads into an invisible forum only viewable by moderators (sort of like Various Nonsense) if they're spam, to be deleted later en masse by Toady in a matter of clicks. They're out of sight, it takes less time to clean up, and nobody but Today/ThreeToe has the power to delete posts or ban users. Everyone wins.

Heck, I'd volunteer to do it. Spam threads annoy me to no end.

_{(insert joke about how those who ask for power do not deserve it.)
(response with a quip about the glory of janitors)}

[Aklyon]

Glory of janitors?

[Urist Imiknorris]

They empty the bins of the rich and powerful.

[Max White]

Truly, their is the trash, and all within it.