Other than how often moderators show up, I'd be supportive of putting a probation on new users, where they have to have X number of posts before they can post freely. That would be posts that actually get moderator approved, of course, and I'd be a bit aggressive (i.e. if you're just posting a "Yeah, me too" or "smack my head" post, it don't get approved, so you'd have to make 10 posts that make a genuine contribution, no matter how small).sinewav wrote: This forum and userbase is old and established and can weather a lot of inconveniences. I would even go as far as disabling all posts until they are moderator approved, and applying that policy indefinitely. I know that would be impractical, but I would support it. Heck, it might even save time since so many posts need to be cleaned up anyway.
I'd also want a bulk "disapprove" feature in there so when someone uses the probation feature to try to DOS the forums, we'd be able to quickly remove all that crap and focus on people who really are trying to be good forum users.
Edit: Add to the wishlist the ability to put older users on some sort of probation where they have to have X posts moderator approved before they can post freely again. This would be people who behave for 100 posts or so, then turn all troll for awhile (think: /dev/null, this would be the Right Way to deal with him, imo).