I'd even go deeper in the rabbit hole and say that there's not either enough staff currently moderating the forum and/or the current staff doesn't want to waste their time moderating.

There's too many spam in way too many sections; the Press board is a good example, but as already pointed out, the same thing applies to the Bitcoin discussion board, Gambling too, not to go into the altcoin whole section... There's way too many spam being generated to be handled accordingly, and we may even be at a point in which only exemplary measures may have some impact. And that does not go against freedom of speech. Keeping things clean doesn't mean people can't express their oppinions, they simply should actually have an oppinion instead of regurgitating a quote or a completely empty post consisting on a few sentences that are only meant to reach the signature quota.

They simply have to step up their game; after X posts deleted for being completely empty or void of any argument, a short ban. If that keeps happening, a longer temp to end up with a perma-ban for literally spamming. Another twist; the bans should actually say the reason for it: you've had X posts deleted for being a signature campaign spam.

But seeing how most if not any proposal to tidy up the forum or X boards have ended, we can only wish Santa will bring us some of this for Xmas...