User blog comment:Alemas2005/The Mess of the MBs/@comment-5175249-20120606175110/@comment-3003185-20120608014556

Second of all, introduce a badge system, in addition to the ranks, that encourages "quality posting". This would greatly discourage, errrm, let's say, 20% more spam. It would be easier to implement than an entirely new rank system, and yet, would easily have the same effect.

Next, instead of having a bunch of different "Ask X" topic, you could have, for example, "Ask the Ninjas," "Ask the Serpentine," and so on. Essentially, set a limit on the number of those kinds of topic. Let's say... errr, that would get rid of another 20%. It wouldn't completely eliminate the problem of too many of those topics, but it would also be fair on the users.

That's 50% of the spam gone. :D From then on, it would be a lot easier to manage, compared to the total percentage of users who visit the LMBs on a regular basis. At best, in the following months, spam might continue to decrease.