easiest/best way to rid of spam is to make all new users require comment approval for their first 2 posts.
or just make a bunch of us mods. spam will be deleted and posts might actually be moved to the correct threads
Think so?
I have done that before, it didn't work.
On my other site, I have 12 people on staff.
As a group they perform 60+ moderations per day. Do you really want to add cleaning up 500 spam posts as well? No, I cannot have 60 people running around with access to the inner workings of a website.
Sorry, but it's not difficult to find a free email host you can use here. Two allowed ones have big names on the internet. Besides that, almost every internet provider gives you 5 free email accounts. This is what I encourage people to use.
As for the two posts, that is great in theory, but I have seen spammers put up 50 spam at a time, with 30 different accounts all in about 10 minutes. Sure with your idea, those posts wouldn't be seen, but it slows down the site and creates a mess for the staff to clean up.
It's not just spammers you have to worry about either. You would be amazed at the trolls it keeps out too. Moderation on my other board dropped by 70% when I enacted this systems. Yes it hurt registration some, but not much.
