I can comprehend why it might take a few hours when the spam is dumped during out of local working hours, but for days? This is a reoccurring issue which really needs attention and an effective solution ASAP.

As is, it presents as unprofessional, and just as John of MT has said, shouldn't require end user reporting by email for an alert before it's acted upon.

Even free hobbbyist forums tend to fix this kind of problem with a degree of urgency not apparent here. o.O ??

BTW, I don't think the "click all boxes which don't have a bus in them" image verification or "I'm not a Robot" checkbox and other annoyingly intrusive upon members blocking pages are the answer either. They not only irritate the begeezuz out of me when they present, but inarguably, [u]they aren't working very well[/u] as an [u]effective[/u] solution.