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What can a human do that a bot cannot? A bot cannot reason. The solution therefore becomes simple. I added a required registration field that required thought and reason. A simple question: Hello, This mechanism is not so good. A spammer technique is using a human person to register accounts then t...

Yes somebody going crazy can do this. But tell me the difference with a moderator ? None. I can go crazy too. You trust somebody, you give him some privilege. You don't trust him, you don't give him privilege. No difference between those two groups! Read again: only a group is allowed to do instant ...

That would be a very dangerous mod for most boards IMHO Dangerous ? Why?? All existing accounts are by default flagged 'valid'. Only new accounts will be 'interim'. What is dangerous? Loose a new user with one post? Bof... What you guys want to do is make a lot of people mini moderators basically. ...

Seems like a lot of work when 3 basic steps take care of spam: (3) Establish Trusted and Non-trusted members as designated by admins and moderators. Trusted members can post immediately, Non-trusted members have their posts reviewed by admins or moderators before being made public. We need a mod fo...