Michael Valentine Jones (8/19/2014)
Just some ideas:Limit the number of forum posts to one or two per day, especially new topics, for a while, say a couple of weeks, after they sign up.
Automatically flag any posting by a new member that has a URL in it.
Automatically flag any posting by a new member that has certain key words in it, like "soccer" or "TV", especially in the title.
Limit new users from posting more than a couple of posts per day until they can successfully answer a number of randomly selected Questions of the Day.
One of the problems with this logic is that if spammers can't create new posts, they'll post their spam in existing posts. This might be worse.
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