New Users & Homepage Spam Options

[Tigawoods]

I know its not a new subject but I thought I would bring it up again because there are a couple people I am talking with who are at "pending" status, which is hindering them from posting or replying.
Was there ever an explanation as to why Coomer isnt able to upgrade the Mods to have more power on the forums?


Homepage Spam. There is an ungodly amount of spamming happening in the comments on the Car pages displayed on the home page (the featured cars not the recently added cars, they may not be on the page long enough to get those)
Weekly I clean out the giant comments of gibberish code script. Usually comes in around 15 or so a week on my page. I checked Stephs BEAMS page and they have over 1900 comments.

[Bushmatic]

This thread is slightly stale but can someone send me the link to the facebook group, or PM me so I can be added if it's "secret" or whatever? I used to have a Saab and being in the Facebook groups was great for finding random little parts I needed, much better than a classifieds post in a forum asking for a specific bolt or bracket or something.

I may be new to the 6gc game, but I am not new to online forums like this. If you want one big suggestion on making the site appear more active (and then become more active as a natural consequence), change the default forum view to show threads from all time, not just in the past 30 days. Since the "My Project" section sees a lot of activity, more threads appear by default, naturally encouraging users to browse and participate more than in other forum sections. When you click on the Exterior Styling forum, you are greeted with only 6 threads by default (at the time of this posting). But at the bottom of the page is a little menu where you can see threads from all time, which is a much more inviting (and logical) view for people to click around and offer advice on slightly older threads with no responses. I'd imagine some users don't even know this view exists. I would love to be able to make new threads without them being sent to purgatory when nobody posts in them for 30 days. On a forum geared toward technical advice rather than current news/trends, this kind of view would be a huge advantage to everyone involved. The only risk is an increased amount of posting in "dead" threads, which is certainly not a horrible thing in the grand scheme of things, especially considering this is the only car forum I have ever seen that hides old threads. This is probably a job for a site admin, who appears to not really be around much, but I figured I'd post for posterity purposes. Ironically, this post will have to be approved by a mod because I'm still in the "trial" period. Fixing the little things like these would really bring this website to a new level.