RE: RE: How do we stop The crap on the boardWell, first put the violators on your ignore list in case they come back or on another board you watch.
Next step (and one I am going to do and often find this kind of thing does work) is mention to SH that you will be contacting their advertisers through the officially paid for links on the SH pages and mention to them that you are likely to leave SH because of board spam and the spam's promotion of services that would be in direct competition to many of SH's paid advertisers.
Trust me, when the advertisers get wind they SH's user base might be dwindling because of spam, they will get on SH's case and SH will have to do something to stop advertisers from leaving. They don't care much about us free users, nor would many businesses.