The amount of useless spam has massively increased over the last few months (at least I feel that way).

I know several other forums which require new members to be moderated for their first frew posts (something around 1-3 posts), and I think this would help here as well.

Are there any plans by the moderators to do something against the spam postings?

If moderating new members is put in place I would volunteer to help out if that would be needed.

Yup, me too.

I would surely like to also be able to help prevent these rather than merely report them.

And some forums still allow "anonymous" posters - and they get heavily hit.

We are stopping more posts than usual, but no where near the max that we hit about four years ago. More agressive moderation is something that we've considered, and I will bring the issue up again.

It takes some time to work through the process, there are multiple people that have to weigh in on this kind of change. I expect that it will be about two weeks before I have a final answer. I will be traveling about that time, so it could be as much as a month before you see this change if it is approved.

-PatP