- Report spam response on megathread or the thread itself if its a low substantial topic
- OP should always used self moderation feature to avoid spammers and be responsible to lock it if your finished with it
- Avoid posts that have generic topics( if not today later it will be locked or deleted)
- Agree, but if a thread is of a low value or insubstantial topic ("When moon?" springs to mind), you don't have to wait for it to become a spam megathread before reporting it
- Unfortunately, this is never going to happen. Even senior members don't moderate their threads and leave them unlocked to fill with spam.
- Again, unfortunately, never going to happen. As long as there are bounties there will be bounty spammers filling up low value threads.
We already have
Signature Campaign Guidelines which state spammers will receive escalating bans, and managers and companies will be held responsible for members who spam. Unfortunately, these guidelines are widely ignored and not enforced.
There are some or specific topic that are meant to be left open because irrespective of the pages of the thread, the discussion ongoing aren't usually a repeated one.
This is definitely the case in boards like Technical Support or Technical Discussion, where often it can be counter productive to lock old threads. Bumping an old thread which discusses the same problem/issue/idea/proposal/etc. as you were going to start a new thread about prevents users having to repeat the same information over and over, and allows you to build on top of ideas or solutions which have already been discussed.
This is largely not the case, however, in boards like Bitcoin Discussion. Topics like "Is this the best time for Bitcoin" and "Are people afraid of investing in Bitcoin" can and will be posted in
ad infinitum by spammers because it is incredibly easily to churn out a generic two line reply which adds nothing to the discussion but fulfills their posting quota. Such thread should be locked.