Being honest, I haven't had as much time to moderate in recent months, just due to work/life balance.

When I am on here, I actively continue to check out stories and moderate where necessary, but as many of you have said in the past and still do... there is so much spam sometimes it just makes me think what's the point? Will we always have spam just because that's how some people like to use their lives and energy?

The existing moderators are all volunteer community mods and always have been

Ah I remember the post when this started - all the comments about how it was going to be so much better and more active etc.

I'm still here too!

I do not - been doing more dev work recently and want to redo my portfolio asap

I wouldn't mind one please! Although I don't know what I'd put up yet.

I would highly recommend these videos from InVision

I thought exactly the same

Are you being serious George? Not very nice is it. Also, your other comment is completely wrong as well. Mods get paid nothing, for anything. All moderation is done in our spare time.

One of the main rules on DN is "Be nice". You're falling very short of this.