About auto-locking old topics / spam megathreads (again)

[bitart]

Today I was curious how a spam megathread looks like nowdays so I've opened a 'classical' one:
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
On the last page I've found a copypaste immediately, a Jr. member just copied a part of the previous post... Archive
I know that this 'Who is Satoshi' is a classical one, but I would propose to lock it at least (I don't really want this to get deleted).

Also, I propose to
- auto-lock a thread if it reaches 500 post (or less, let's say a 100) or,
- the topic has no new post in 1 or 2 weeks time
from now on.

The idea behind these proposals is the following:
We can have a look easily at the new topics opened in a thread, like in Bitcoin Discussion, using this link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0;sort=first_post;desc
But, we cannot check every spam megathread to catch all the spamming newbies and juniors, because spam megathread have a lots of posts, and it's not easy to spot the copypasters too.
If we auto-lock the above mentioned topics, spammers have to open new topics to spam.
New topics can be checked periodically for copypaste and spam more easily, so it can help to clean the thread on the long run...
I know it won't help to fight those copypasters who copy from a topic to another one, but if there's no universal solution, we can do it step by step at least....

[cellard]

I say forget it, just let them spam on these threads, ignore said threads, it's a waste of time. If the merit system is working then they shouldn't be able to make any relevant amount of money doing that and they will eventually give up. Ban the most obvious spammers but that's it.

What this forum needs more resources invested in immediately is more staff taking care of hacked accounts. There's a bunch of people here waiting to get their accounts recovered after months and months of wait to no end and they have provided sufficient proof that they own the accounts. It's just impossible that only 2 people are going to be able to take care of that.