(although Tammy's post below indicates otherwise), but it's much harder for members to locate in the first place. If we can't find it, we can't flag it.
First, it remains difficult to spot new posts in discussions. If a spammer digs up a large zombie, it's hard to spot the multiple new posts since they are no longer marked as new. If there's just one, it's at the top; sometimes there are more and they're difficult to spot.
Second, if you follow the link to the spammer's profile, you only see his last four posts. You can't track down all his offensive content, including the multiple posts to a single discussion as noted above. It's also harder to switch between a member's posts to Discussion and Q&A than it used to be.
Third, we don't see a full 'Member Since' date anymore. Spammers almost always joined the day they posted. That was a useful clue.
Fourth, the old 'sign up' process mandated a location. Goofy locations like 'London, Egypt' were often good indications of a canned pork pusher. Location and date could be scanned when a post was opened, often indicating it was spam before even reading the content. Now with the location being optional, it takes longer to analyze the text. (Making it harder to tell where a poster is from also makes it harder to tell how sophisticated to be with one's speech when replying. Many of us would avoid slang, contractions, etc when replying to someone from a non-English-speaking location.)
Fifth, as MJ says, the Discussions board no longer shows the name of the most recent poster. Names like 'BuySchoolDegree' were usually pretty good indicators that it was worth opening the discussion to smack the button.
Consider yourself pinged. You're looking at spam hunting from the back-end view of the butcher or meat processor; come out here and see it from the woods.
