That is a very good question! From where I sit, nothing is being done. We were given a very weak excuse, several weeks ago, that made almost no sense. Dave
Respectfully Dave, there is PLENTY being done here. First off, you get what you pay for (which is $0 by the way). Don't expect impeccable stellar service from volunteer moderators. We have jobs and lives outside SDD.
Second, don't complain every time someone pokes in. That is just wasteful of all of our time and effort.
Third, if you don't like how stuff is working, take it up with the management, oilburners.net.
As far as what used to be, spammers have outsmarted the forum writers and have circumvented their controls.
As far as the mechanics of all this goes, we DO ban by usersame and IP. Its not the same guy most of the time. As often as some new fangled desirable gadget comes out, its gonna happen because of the worlds thirst for cheap Chinese made gizmos's. Notice how 95% of them had to do with the iPhone5? its mostly dies down.