Actually, no. I filter #spam and haven't seen any of it. The clever among us to that - then when we see some #spam we mark it and the rest of us don't see it. It works really damn well.
That's awesome, and thank you and everyone else who actually tags stuff spam. The greatest part is that you all seem to do so very accurately. It's extremely helpful. I use the all post feed, global, often and therefore see the good the bad and the ugly. There was a time though when the spam was so prolific and quickly appearing that mk, myself and forwardslash were all manually deleting dozens of posts a minute. Whack a mole Style. That's when we added the "I'm not a robot" step to account creation.
Good on ya. That's why the tools are there. But, let's say you're a newbie and looking for people to follow. You hit up the global feed and see walls of spam. Not cool. It happens. Hard to dissuade.
I think the solution is that newbies are automatically filtering #spam
What about unregistered users? I have browsed reddit for almost a year unregistered before deciding to create an account. I'm not sure if people here do the same but I did that for a few weeks before creating this account.