right...
just to clear a few things up.
I posted in the staff lounge about how to see who has done what with the threads. if you don't know, then look in there.
I moved all of the threads front he social lounge and general hardware software forum that were created in a time when the forum software was broken (that were of subject only and no content).
about halfway through the second page of moving them I really felt like banning the people who were posting them.
I mean the forum was broken, you should have just gone away and come back when it was fixed!
never mind it's all sorted now.
one last thing to clear up...
as mods we do work hard, there are no slackers or anything like that, but all of us have to sleep sometimes, at 1 in the morning I was in bed, so that i could get up and drive an hour to work, (mostly so I could post here it seems!).
I know it's annoying to see spam, and that particular brand of spam was very annoying, but it does all get cleared up.
if nothing else the first thing i usually do is check my email, and look at all the reported posts. and deal with them where appropriate.
if yuo see spam happening online then just report it, and sooner or later a mod will come clear it up.