A few words about spam

[Farseer]

Might it be a good idea to change settings for the Other Universes section so that new users have post approval on first post or two there?

I agree, thanks 'thul.

In recent times there has been a number of spambots getting in there.

Yes, now that things in the Finnish room have been secured (ish), loopholes elsewhere are being burrowed into...

Keeping the RotE and introduction sections as they are might be best though, considering how slow new users would otherwise be approved. (no offense intended farseer. A single person (or two) approving will naturally have multiple holes in the 24-hour coverage. Its an undeniable but unfortunate fact.)

I'd love to use this as an excuse to get fiesty with you beings but I just don't have fiesty in me and you speak truth, so, none taken! There may be two of us in fact but there really is only one of us in the everyday at present (when I am actually here and not driving somewhere) and likely to be that way for some time to come...

Another alternative would be post approval for first 2-3 posts for all users universally. It would suffer from the delay in approval common to previous suggestion, but it might be easier to implement.

True, true...

On phpBB 3.0.9 there is a feature for this, not sure if it is on this MyBB version.
There it is a feature called "newly registered users" group, which can have different permissions from "registered users". When user reaches a certain (configurable) post count, he/she/it is moved automatically to the latter group.

*looks questioningly at Mervi*
Does such feature exist here?

I might have a look and see what I can find out re MyBB as I managed to find the solution to the other problem for Mervi when the site crashed not so long ago. Either way, I will pass on all of this and any of my other findings to Mervi - thanks for the thoughtful and helpful suggestions!