Suggestion To The Moderators To Rid This Site Of Spam

The SPAM seems to get cleaned up pretty quickly and there's not an overwhelming amount of it.  I just ignore it.  The proposed "solution" seems like more of a problem than the SPAM itself.

I'm with big_greg.

It's a lot of work for moderators to remove spam after the fact, and you see it if you are on the site at odd hours before they have had an opportunity to do so. I think there must be some good spam filters that work. I run a couple of web sites and the spam gets relegated to a folder, never appearing on the site, because users have to take more than one step to self-authenticate. I'm somewhat surprised that A-gon has this problem since you have to register to post, but if someone here has IT chops (I don't), they could probably explain how these bots can get on the board without triggering a filter. I suspect the powers that be are probably working on a software solution; however, I gather that this board is custom software, not standard off the shelf platform stuff, so maybe they have more issues than simply buying a plug in to ameliorate it. 

Taxation without representation? Nope. Especially taxation on speech. 

This is seriously one of the worst ideas I have ever heard.