You all wan't to eliminate spam? Then perhaps eliminate the "General Discussion" forum.
And then do you know what will happen? 50-80% of the people here will leave, because there isn't enough interesting mapping questions/issues/etc. to talk about. I check the "HL1 Design Questions" first, every day, and every day there is NOTHING in there.
And on the rare occasion when there is, it's most likely ridiculous to even attempt answering it, because it's just some stupid/lazy person that wants to be told how to do everything.
And great job Mods, on immediately closing the "Drink..." thread as soon as I started the my flame session on *The Member Who Shall Not Be Named*--which I'll admit now, wasn't the best way to go about it.
That thread had 90 posts--in a relatively short time--, and everyone who is complaing about spam in subsequent threads, posted in there, including TMWSNBN.
I'll admit, not the most interesting nor informative thread, but fun. Did I learn anything from it? Not really, except what the members here like to drink, and that "blueberry juice" exists--Thanks, Satchmo--, oh and I guess that not everyone knows what Kool-Aid and Dr. Pepper are!
So that's alright, it's closed, and of the 20 legitimate other threads that are still open, most of them have an average of 15-20 posts, and nobody's posting in most of them anyway.
So what's my "point," for all of those looking for one?
If you don't like a thread, don't post in it. Ignoring stupid threads is the easiest/fastest way to kill them. Anything else is just adding to the mess.
Also, I agree that rampant spam exists here, but with decent topics/questions/issues continuing to dry up, what else shall we talk about?