I am a member of numerous Internet forums and have been using Internet forums since the 90s and none have ever included such a high minimum post requirement (100) to post links.

I understand having a certain number say "10" to weed out spammers but there is no logical reason to make it 100. All that does it make it next to impossible for new members to debate anyone. Most tech forums don't have a minimum at all and simply use robust registration policies.

Please consider changing this to a more realistic 10, thank you.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Dec 29^th, 2012 at 5:00am:

I doubt this as most bots are automated and professional spammers do not waste there time manually doing anything as there is nothing special about these forums. You only have less than 2000 registered members. There are forums with hundreds of thousands of members and they do not have these problems.

If the problem is automated bots then it is a problem with the registration process.

When I see people throwing around technical terms and accusations with no evidence it is not a good sign. You cannot accuse anyone of being a sock puppet unless you can see that their IP is the same as another account. Otherwise you have no evidence and should not be making the accusation.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Dec 29^th, 2012 at 5:45am:

I am a member of numerous Australian forums with many more members and none of any such posting policy. The bigger forums deal with bots and spammers without having to restrict members to posting 100 posts before they can post a link.

What are you talking about IPs are dynamic in Australia? There is nothing special about Internet access in Australia.

We had it set to 10 (or maybe slightly higher) for a while. The bots would get in, post 10 nonsensical posts, then post a link. We have very robust registration processes that updated regularly to keep ahead of the bots. These include the custom anti spam measures you would have come across on registering, which were updated this month.

If you must post a link, put in a few spaces and make people put it back together. That is a lot easier all round than cleaning up after spambots.

I apologise for any inconvenience.

Because I didn't want to have to delete 30 spam posts. I think I did increase it fairly gradually. 100 works.

You cannot post a non clickable link.

I you were having problems with a 20-25 post limit (doubt it) then just gradually increase it to 30-40 ect... don't jump to 100. Carefully created ban email lists stop most of the nonsense such as,

*botox*@*.*
*casino*@*.*
*penis*@*.*
*pharma*@*.*
*porn*@*.*
*ringtone*@*.*
*viagra*@*.*
*vids*@*.*
*@*4warding*.*
*@*advert*.*
*@*cash*.*
*@*big*.*
*@*casino*.*
*@*cholesterol*.*
*@*credit*.*
*@*bugger*.*
*@*free*.*
*@*hentai*.*
*@*horney*.*
*@*money*.*
*@*pharmacy*.*
*@*ringtone*.*
*@*russian*.*
*@*sex*.*
*@*shop*.*
*@*viagra*.*
*@*xxx*.*
*@*.by
*@*.cc
*@*.cn
*@*.cz
*@*.de
*@*.fm
*@*.info
*@*.lv
*@*.pl
*@*.ua
*@*.tk
*@*.tv
*@*.ws

Poptech, can't you write "power to the 99%" and press send, keep at it, over and over and you'd have your 100 posts up in no time.

You're already a quarter of the way there.

You may have to separate out the www bit with a space or something like that. Poptech sounds like he would be able to figure it out. Thanks for the email filter.