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I was thinking, perhaps you could make a new mod (Teinaava, maybe?), or use an exsisting mod, to be in head of spambot awareness and cleaning the forums of them and such?

I think the Textual Confirmation or "Click inside the broken circle" will work better.
And one mod just for spambots? It's something all mods should work on it, like they do now. That'll be more effective (and they'll have less work if bots cannot register an account).

Josjie, one mod for it gives the others time for other things, keeping members in check etc.

I've contacted Codex a few weeks ago that if they were looking for new moderators, I'd like to help.
And I'd like to help getting rid of these spambots
But I'm not sure if they're in need of moderators right now, but as soon as they do, we'll know

Maybe, Daveh should make like a group for Spam-fighters or something?

Spam-fighters.....?

~Spam fighters!
Saving the internet
One spammer at a time!~

"Spambusters" sounds better : D

We want a Theme song too!

"Spambusters!!"

Totally original.

can't we be Superhero themed?
Because that would be awesome.
There's another forum I frequent where the mods are the Justice League, and the sort of "helpers" are the Teen Titans...

We're an odd bunch...

We already knew that

Speaking of spam-fighters, and still you continue to spam this topic with useless content. Remember this is not the general forum, and if you don't have any constructive to add, then leave it.

On to business then.
I know there are "groups" for the mods, and a group named "Helper-Mod" (though I'm not sure what the difference is).

A question I have: do the Moderators have the ability to create new groups, or is this purely an admin function?
If the mods can do so, I would suggest (of course, this is up to them) making a small group of maybe two three people who can lock threads, and that's it. Call them the "Spambot Patrol" or something.
Then these people would lock any Spambot threads they see, so others don't post, and a real mod would come along and delete the threads.

Of course, this only works if:
a) The mods can make new groups (which I doubt)
b) Groups allow for complete customisation of abilities (i.e. choosing which powers to give rather than just saying this group has mod powers)
c) There are some mature, dedicated spam patrollers, who won't abuse the power to lock threads
d) I get to be the leader (okay, this one's a joke, and probably the reason why I wouldn't be the leader )

Or you could just appoint another mod and tell them that their only job is to stop spam... but that's no fun.

No, mods cannot make usergroups.

And the best way to reduce the number of spambots is to ban the whole gmail domain since that's what 95% of the spambots use. But since that would require alot of users to change their email, it's not an option. If Daveh installs that plugin Josjie mentioned (or a similar one), that would be our best practical solution.