That's a good point... but the people doing the spamming aren't members here (until they want to start spamming) and I doubt they read the forums. At the rate we get spam, the next time someone spams the previous locked thread is already on the next page and they're probably not likely to search for it.

I guess I only started thinking about it in the last couple of days because I have to look at one particular locked thread now that gives me the creeps.