Rubbish

If the poster has joined in exactly the same way as any of us have, they can post exactly the same way that we have.

The only way to get ride of a poster is by reporting their post as soon as it appears, so that the moderators can delete it and block the poster - so it is better to act than to complain on the threads.

OP is not wrong re GN being rubbish. Some of the best posters have gone

I find it easier to leave it for a few hours and return when normal service has been resumed 😁

I agree with Elegran.

I have already reported five SPAM ones in the last hour. Surely I cannot be the only one, who has seen them.

What makes the best posters? I do miss certain people, but there are still many informed and interesting posters on threads.

But wrong in thinking that the mods can get rid of the spam posts without screening every single one of the hundreds of innocent posts too.

Would posters be happy with a delay while their post is checked by hand before it is published? Or if it is automatically checked by a robot and rejected if it contains one of a list of trigger words that might mean that it is spam or trolling? If you couldn't say hippopotamus in case the robot thought you were advertising pot and banned you?

That was a reply to karmalady

The moderators can't be working 24 hours a day, perhaps a solution would be for any reported post to be automatically blocked until a moderator has had time to check it.

i don't think there is any overview of GN, unless someone reports a post.
they are all too busy monitoring MN; that's where the money is.