I've been starting to wonder if we need to create a stickey where people alert us to spams, or as a general "message to moderators" thread. We could then delete the spam and the message from stickey. Whenever we see there's more than 1 comment in the thread, we know there's a message. Thoughts?
Some thing along your line of thinking would, I am sure, help in getting rid of spam quickly, when I find spam I post another thread to alert Ninjas but others may not have the time or patience to do this. Also if the spam is being posted by people they may stop if they know that their efforts will be removed very quickly. Or am I living in the wrong world
In my daily trail thru unread topics since my last or previous entry I use to first check for spam advices and suspicious topics, and after that then walk into each new or modified topic and delete spam posts or tags. It's nothing funny and I think it'd be useful to have the chance to delete those spam users but I haven't found how yet even having asked and told it was available, my mistake I guess.