It's my personal belief that spam doesn't come from the lack of communication solutions.
Spam comes from people being bored, or there being a chat forum that has 'low to no topic' rules.
Spam comes from people wanting to destroy a topic, or annoy posters.
Spam comes from trolls, and porn bots.
As for things getting locked - that's people ignoring our E for Everyone code of conduct, and ignoring mod requests. I can't think of anything that'll change people that don't want to change, are too young or inexperienced online to deal with community conversations and basic manners.
Anyone that wants solutions usually doesn't spam a thread from what I've seen anyway, they find the right one or two threads and ask for what to do, ya know?
Anyway - we have webchat guys, it's right off the front page and has been for a long time.
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