Like someone else said (maybe Feabell? Can't remember tbh), maybe promoting some more people who are on here regularly to moderator would be a good idea - Basically everyone here has been to the LANs and we all know each other in person, so it isn't like anyone would abuse their mod status (you can't do much anyway except delete posts and possibly ban users), but it would allow for much cleaner boards and at least a temporary fix to the ridiculous spam that you guys are receiving atm.

All of the members of the LC community want to see it grow and thrive and bring in new people (especially seen as local LANs are very rare), so let us help out a bit and allow those who are willing to manage the spam.

What do you think?

EDIT: For example, I know personally that I check LC at least once per day, it doesn't take more than 5 seconds so it would be real easy for me to remove loads of the spam that is there when I log in if I was given mod powers.

This sounds like a good idea to me

Oh and to the admins, I assume that you've seen all the pages like: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=427852 about securing phpbb forums from spam, but just in case you haven't there it is.