I was aware of this almost a few hours after he was removed, I only noticed this topic after ChuckBuck mentioned my name.
I am happy to see frodocooper finally demoded because he was to restrictive with editing posts from every members who posted in mining section.
While I do disagree with a few things frod used to do, I am certain that the mining board was a lot better when he was around.
I am one of the most active members in the section, I watch every child board in it every day even when I don't post. When frod was around the amount of spam was close to zero, we hardly had the time to report any post as he was actively removing spam around the clock, he even did a great job in arranging different topics in their appropriate child board, that task alone is a lot of work.
Since he left, the amount of spam went up, not by a lot simply for two reasons.
1- Most spammers probably are not aware of the fact that he left.
2- He left at the bearish/no so spam friendly time.
I am pretty sure that when
BTC hits new ATH and mining become very attractive again, the mining board will have to deal with a lot of spam, I report a few posts every day since he left which I didn't have to because he took care of it all.
Another thing I noticed after he left is that many topics are put in the wrong child board, the child boards can be very confusing to most new members, even to old members who are not active in the mining board, as for now, I am so glad that whoever handles our reports actually agrees to move topics to where we ask them to, although, I am pretty sure most mods won't understand why do we request moving a topic from board A to board B, it's like a general consensus that was build between the members of that section, so I do hope the mods keep moving topics to their appropriate child boards based on the community requests to keep things as neat as possible.
With that being said,I don't think we need a new mod, for now, we just need the miners' community to start utilizing the reports more and more, it's a habit we need to develop now since we didn't really have to when frod was around, i am positive the mining community will overcome this and continue to be the most anti-spam section in this forum.
Frod, despite all the arguments I had with you, you did a great job and you shall be remembered. Thank you