How's the spam been? The forum basically became virtually unusable at a certain point. The noise to signal ratio was 100:1 at best.
Sadly the ratio now seems to be at 1000:1 or even at 10000:1. The only solution is to follow specific users and specific discussions.
A real user who is interested in bitcoin and it's possibilities/uses will always believe there is use for this forum. Spam has nothing to do with a person's interest in this forum or bitcoin. Click the ignore button or scroll past what you believe is a spammer and don't let them ruin your experience here.
Would you want to read a book of 500 pages if 499 pages of it are complete trash and it has a total of 1 page of valuable content? To make matters worse this content is scattered around in fragments throughout the 500 pages. That's the situation here. One wastes a lot of time just trying to find valuable content to read, let alone something to respond.