Your take on moderating first time users...

"A forum I was once involved with" aka. TalkFreelance.

Back to Spencer, personally I would dislike being forced to make an introductory post of any kind before being allowed to become a member of a forum or website. I would dislike even more for the judgement of whether my first and only post was "spam or legit" to be the deciding factor of whether I can continue being involved or not.

Instead of putting barriers up for "normal" users of a website, I'd love to see far, far fewer in place! Signing up to websites is already a pain enough as it is. Don't make it worse just because of the spammers.