This has been asked about many times over the last year~ in various threads, to no avail. I'm begging anyone at Elo who reads this to consider or at least respond to this post, regarding forum moderators.

It's not reasonable for one person to have the workload every day banning new bots that invade the forums with links or copied posts that get edited, later on, currently, they're easy to spot and a huge problem. Right now I'd bet the threads below this are created by a red-named, two-part name account with a post that WILL be edited maliciously.

I and many others would happily volunteer to do this, the forum looks worse than I can remember seeing it, and through no fault of star, bots can persist for days at a time.

The site staff know who’s trustworthy enough to be a forum moderator

The bots at least make the forums interesting to look at. Otherwise it's just the same 5-10 people posting in the same spam thread(s) everyday.

The purpose of the non-game forums is to allow a broad range of discussion. Most of the real posts (presumably real) are from people asking questions on how to get started. They won't have a verified run in that situation. As far as bots are concerned, you'll just end up flooding boards that don't require proof, or, have auto verification setup so that bots can spam. This is not a preferred solution to the problem.