Spam threads gone wild...

It seems like less members are posting new threads. In the "Past 48 hours" there are only a handful of real threads.
I believe members are spending less time on the forum; many familiar monikers haven’t been involved lately.

I know Admin said they were working on it but wow, it's still being hammered with the same spam. I can't understand how they can't fix this.

It would probably require a massive update of the forum period.

Basically a new system of having a forum, new format, the whole works.

In that new but now 'normal' forum format, the software would have the ability to combat such heavy spamming.

This old system (that you are looking at right now), that is quite unique, does not have the ability to add on spam detection packages.

This was predictable. It was just a matter of time.

The posting of spam can be done by bots, and the forum software as it exists now, would not be able to prevent it.

It's simple.  Any new member's first post should be moderated, and the member deleted if that post is spam. 

It's 10am EST on a Wednesday  and there are 81 spam threads and about 10 legitimate. I've never seen anything like this online.
I know the Mods. are working on the problem, but at this point, the spammers have taken over the forum and are free to do as they will.