The spam/scam threads are only part of the issue as I see it, too many newbies come onto the forums and start creating threads for topics discussed to death and/or posting some highly inappropriate stuff (e.g. disclosing too much). I was hoping the change would force them to invest some time getting to know how things work on here and read up on the wealth of information at their fingertips, unfortunately that hasn't been the initial reaction with most just posting junk to build post count and gain access to the main forum pages. It has also as scout rightly pointed out concentrated a lot of the spam in one place which to some extent does make it a bit easier to delete but it also means the newbie section is getting slammed with that crap which has just given me an idea that we need to post some stickies in there quick telling them those threads are scams. Happy Friday people