Unfortunately for the nomination idea, remember when Aurashade posted a thread about how he should become a mod, and everyone all agreed to it and said it was a good idea?
Remember Gimpy's reaction?
*Bowser fsmash*
So, as respectable members we remember some things.
In short:
1) Ignore spam threads and posts. Don't comment or reply to them in any way.
2) Report spam threads to current moderators.
Why do that?
1) Upon spotting a spam thread, ignore it and never go back. Don't even post- not even an answer to a question, not even a rebuttal for a stupid comment. Remember that it is actually HARMFUL to reply to these threads and posts because now you are being sucked into spamming useless replies over and over. The less we reply the less threads are gonna be like that. Sometimes silence gives the thread owner some time to contemplate on our reaction- and since the mind comes up with extravagently over-the-top reactions, we can assume that they won't post another thread again. If they do, then we once again ignore them, and very few people don't have the intelligence to understand what silence to repeated attempts means.
The same goes for flaming, foul language, etc.
2) Upon spotting these behaviors, PM a mod in charge of the Link boards and say:
"We have found a spam thread entitled [Insert n00b title here]. Please close or delete it." (If you do not know how to PM, see page 2 of this thread for a link [lol, totally unrelated bad pun]).
There's no better way for a person to become a mod than to do the things mentioned above (Bad pun aside). Since you can't DO the mod's job, show the current mods that you are responsible by doing EXACTLY WHAT YOU AGREED TO IN TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE (Don't respond, let mods know, etc). No one will mod you if you keep going on to useless threads and saying "Oh goodness, this thread is stupid and needs to be close /thread." You are actually breaking rules by doing that.
tl;dr
Know the rules and follow them. Be proactive in reporting reasonable things to mods.
And you just might get modded.
/long rambling post