[Brian]

We've got the "here there be spammers" thread there because particularly-dumb spammers just stick their message in the first thread. We're obviously not able to catch the not-as-dumb (no spammers are smart) ones, but at the very least, we can assume that thread is less attractive to our legitimate users.

I poked about in vBulletin's options, and all I see is the ability to turn RSS feeds on/off globally; I don't see the option to turn it off selectively for a given forum, unfortunately.

If someone out there with more vBulletin-Fu than I knows differently, though, I'm certainly open to it. I'll also check in on this later this week. We're going to upgrade the version of the forum software we're running.