Other forums I am on never seem to have any where near the amount this place gets the whole place needs a clean up
And as other members have said many times before need to be member for so long before you can post

This board is probably different, but you'ld think the spam report button would send the link of the thread you're reporting, which shouldn't cause too much confusion since the real Spam isn't that hard to spot - it's just an arse ended way of doing it which, in my opinion, solves jack shit. The problem isn't spam being reported, it's that it exists in the first place and takes so long to be removed - sometimes.
Making the innocent jump through hoops and change their behavior is how the government solves problems.

We need a employ an consultant, lavish them with incentives and bonuses, for them to tell us what we already know.

That's how our Government solves problems. ;-)

I agree that account registration is too easy. There needs to be two (or more) factor authentication when signing up. You guys already have the email verification, which is good, but easily circumvented on its own. A captcha (like above) would solve the problem.

I haven't really looked into it so I'm unsure if there's any free solutions, but there's bound to be. If not I'm sure you guys could get a few bucks out of some of us maybe?

 

EDIT:
Looks like it is free http://www.captcha.net/ 
This appears to be a simple enough captcha implementation method: http://www.captcha.tv/captcha-explained.html though it's php and these forums are asp so I'm unsure if it'll be supported.

According to this, the administrator should have the ability to enable captcha in the forum settings: http://activeforums.codeplex.com/discussions/433314

The forum software is open source and community driven: http://activeforums.org/ https://github.com/ActiveForums/ActiveForums so it wouldn't be hard getting it sussed out regardless

Just to be clear I am not telling you lot how to run your website, just trying to help.

Look at that more passport fuckheads