Here is a question for those who know: is there anything forum regulars can do when we see spam posts beyond letting mods know about it? I was active in a now

Here is a question for those who know: is there anything forum regulars can do when we see spam posts beyond letting mods know about it? I was active in a now dead forum that would get hit once or twice a week. The mods would clean it up with in a half a day but until then those posts would just sit. Does the Google web crawler consider words in replies to the spam post? I used to reply occasionally with words like: scam, fraud, got ripped off. I have always wondered if I was wasting my time. A few times I checked the link to see if it went some where legitimate (Google the base url), if so, I then searched the site for an informational web form. If there was one, left a message that their SEO company was using sleazy methods with a link to the forum post. Google ought to make a code phrase that forum users can use to red flag spam posts. Though some of the posts were for Japanese and Chinese sites. The spam might not have been meant for Google but other search engines...