The spam is obviously annoying as hell, but to be honest, I don't think we have it so bad. I mean, this is a largely unmoderated forum. We have the benefit of freedom of speech without some sanctimonious prick closing or deleting threads just because they don't match his world view. I know I appreciate that, and the flaming the spammers get is amusing at times.
Obviously I would prefer that it wasn't there, as I'm sure most of us would, but I can deal with it. Also in all honesty, there are a fair share of 'legitimate' posts that are more annoying. Usually the daily repeated questions from those that can't be bothred to either use a search engine or even have a quick look at the thread before theirs, where the exact same question is answered.
Also the 'Who Destroyed Metal' thread, the 'Dongle crack for SX2' thread, and the 'do you really buy that expensive software' thread should be closed and deleted before I fail yet again to resist the urge to post in them. I just can't help it, even though the same threads have been going around in circles for years.