Hi, as we know there’s a quite good spam protection in place: new users need their posts to be approved.
Can you tell me who approves the posts? mods of the respective forums? admins?
There are also some bugs - with RSS you can peek at these unapproved posts in advance, on the other hand “active topics” lists at the top can lead you to fake 404s on these.
If I remeber well, both admins and mods.
I don’t know nor use feeds, technical side might be fixed by Hakuch, but i haven’t hear from him for some time.
Could you give an example if such misleading active topic?
I might be missing something obvious here, but where’s the “report spam” button gone?
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=751345#p751345
is obviously spam. It’s not their first post - their previous ones were garbage, but non-spam.
EDIT: Found it! It’s the “report” button, but is oddly greyed out in the UI.
Here it is 
And how I can take a peek with RSS despite that:
Judging from this, if every post that goes into the moderation queue is listed on the global “active” list, then there isn’t much spam to begin with - nothing that couldn’t be deleted after the fact.
I do not know who could take care of this. Any developers out there?