but if the press links are legitimate and not duplicates, should we not be thanking the people posting them?
If someone wants to read cointelegraph.com (or whichever site the spammer of the month is spamming), then they can simply go to cointelegraph.com. They don't need someone to copy and paste 5 articles a day to the Press board. The fact that these threads generally have 10-20 views and 0-2 replies is proof that they are not generating any discussion and no one actually cares about them.
How about moving any topic created from a site with "coin" in their URL and more than a few topics per month to one thread in the Press section dedicated to that site? Call it "Press releases from Coinxxxxxx.com" and it stops flooding the board with useless topics.
Not a bad idea, but it requires buy-in from admin and mods, and since we apparently don't care enough about Press to delete blatant spam, then I can't see this happening either. Hence my proposal to just name it what it is.
You can always create self-moderated threads, moderate them however you want, and delete everything you don't want to see there without having to explain to anyone why you are doing that.
Yes, but this only helps on threads you create. You still aren't going to use a board if for every 1 good thread self moderated by an intelligent user there are 20+ spam threads you have to wade through first.