Cleaning up the Vintage Community forum

It looks like a few days ago, the spambots went to town on the Vintage Community forum. They've been banned and their posts deleted, but the spam threads still show up in greyed-out form, making the forum hard to navigate. Any chance of purging the threads completely?

The spam bots are getting out of control. They seem to be barraging the forum ever night now.

Maybe there’s a way to block Japanese characters or something like that.

I talked to @Brass-Man a few days ago and looks like he's looking for a solution to that already. 🙂

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