So, you're an advocate of censorship then?
The spam posts are often rated down and people have the ability to adjust their view threshhold so they don't even see it.
Oh, please, if you fall off that high horse you might hurt yourself.
I don’t have a lot of interest in a long winded discussion of the merits of LF.
Re your “censorship” nonsense, free speech doesn’t guarantee publication as I’m sure you well know. That's why your skunk isn't below the fold on the NYT. Competing media providers, whether print or internet, enforce standards of what they wish to publish, or what commentary they wish to include on their site, and consumers exercise choice as to whom they wish to patronize. That’s not censorship any more than the fact that my local Ford agency doesn’t sell Chevies is restraint of trade.
Some sites, like FR or LP use their own standards of content propriety in determining what they will allow to be posted.
LF used restricted membership (past tense, I know, it’s open now) to control the viewpoint of it’s membership, and uses the LF mob to rate (censor, in your terms) the “spam” posts.
Same result. Posters can vote with their keyboards as to which method they prefer.