I understand the frustration... The past couple days I find I've deleted a few posts a day. Including one that was an interstitial link through Pinterest at that. The only real way to combat spam is manual intervention or invest a *LOT* of time, effort and money.
I do wish there were a report/flag story option though, or that if a story is deleted that anyone who down voted got double their karma back and those that posted/upvoted lost 10 karma points.
@fcambus is the current echojs codebase somewhere on github/gitlab for user contributions?
Why don't they?
Because, what would be the point?
Spammers could easily just create another account. It would be too little deterrent for spammers.
To stop spam, something else, like having to manually approve posts would work. But that would increase the effort, and therefore, the required time mods have to invest to echojs.
FYI, I'm @tracker1 on twitter and aztracker1 in fb messenger, feel free to shoot me a message if you notice a spammy article.
You should be able to reach @echojs and @fcambus on twitter as well.