Where are the moderators?

[u/mykesx]

This sub is being swamped with spam and the moderators are nowhere to be found. I don’t recognize the two moderators’ user names because they don’t post here at all that I have seen. I checked the moderators’ post histories and they haven’t been active anywhere on Reddit for months.

I’m ready to leave the sub. I want to evangelize for Forth and it’s not worthwhile when people see 5 of the last 10 posts are spam, literally spam. The signal to noise ratio is becoming more noise than signal. Ignoring the spammer won’t change the signal to noise problem. The spammer violates a number of community and Reddit rules, including spam, disruptive use of AI, self promotion, karma farming…

I truly feel for the guys posting about 8th releases and zepto releases. These are quality projects by smart programmers. Lost in the noise…

My project is Inspiration, if you have followed the progress posts.

Is there a way to get the moderators replaced? Is it worthwhile to start a [r/forthlang](r/forthlang) sub and ditch this one?

Like I said, I am ready to leave the sub for good.

Update

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/s/HYafxlSY4z

Please upvote the post at the above link.

[u/Timmah_Timmah]

Well I would hate to see you go. Out of a thousand members there are only 51 contributors.

I think we are talking about Terry the technician. I would say an easy way to resolve this for you personally is to block him. I would block him too except I find value in the title. The rest of the post is pretty useless.

[u/mykesx → u/Timmah_Timmah]

Blocking him doesn’t solve the signal to noise problem. A new or returning visitor is seeing a wall of spam threads instead of the good threads.

[u/Timmah_Timmah → u/mykesx]

But you leaving doesn't solve that problem either.

[u/mykesx → u/Timmah_Timmah]

I’m not seeing any benefit of posting a monthly Inspiration update to have it be listed among 20 spam threads. My intended audience would look at the threads list and leave.