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I know my title isn't very clear and I'm sorry. I'm bad at typing explanations, but please hear me out:

In some forums, you have to mail the mod/admin(of the forum) before you are able to post and or comment/reply in a thread. (I mean after you sign up)

So would this system work to prevent the huge wave of bots clogging up the forums?

Well, it would work to get rid of spam. In addition, knowing what I know about KYM's backend, it might not be too hard to implement.

The problem is that the spam problem isn't really a big deal, at least on the mod's end. For user mods, it takes literally seconds to remove the spam and ban. During the slower hours of the site (~2 a.m. to 6 a.m.) is when the spam is worst, and most mods aren't online during that time. But because it's slow, most users don't get to see it.

If it's really bad, this could be viable solution, but I just don't feel like it's at that level yet.

what about timers on new accounts. I mean if we give a few days for new accounts to post (maybe once a day until their account has gone through the time.)

Any timer of a not-unreasonable length would only catch a few of the spambots. They post anywhere from moments after registering to a week after.

Back when I janitored the other site, we somehow had it indexed pretty high in Google's search priority, and that invited a metric fuck ton of spam bots in the forums, we're talking 10 threads per bot every 5 minutes before we asked Google what the hell was going on, and even more if you didn't catch them in time. THAT would call for whitelisting. Most I see here is two threads in the day, and at midnight there would be several more.

The spam simply isn't Vietnam enough IMO