This also seems to be true. If the "OFF TOPIC" threads didn't appear in the "Hot Topics" on the front page it would improve the functionality of the site by a good bit.

As In real world, the money is the problem... 

^ I love that song.

There's only about 4 or 5 people spamming for posts/dollars on this board out of the ton of regs, at least 2 of them have been put intheir place recently.

Honestly I don't see what the problem here is, it's not too much different from when I signed up, except that all the gballzack/Hus/Blue3/KillZone/whatever accounts aren't running wild, and leo-j is getting banned more often.

This is probably more of an issue for those of us who use the Hot Topics feature on the front page. Less than relevant threads on the Off Topic board aren't hurting anyone, but they can clutter up the list of the most recent threads if there are a lot of them.

Not sure if I'd want anything to be done about it, since it hasnt' bothered me much. There have been some ridiculous events like leo posting 300 times in a few hours, or brute posting anything at all, but I trust the mods can keep things under control.

Ioi definitely has a point with how it's a slow time of the year for gaming news, and discussion will probably get more relevant when something interesting happens.

There are the users and the posts that do need cleaning up, but if you go to many other game forums you don't have half a many intelligent posts, more then double the spam and pointless or copied threads and its ran by mods that do nothing but spam themselves, so VGC is a good community for gaming and leaving only hurts the community we already have, so you can stay and work to keep this community going or leave and let the spammers and trollers have another site to call home.

^^^^ are you being sarcastic?

what does need too be cleaned up?