Phew. Can we please get rid of that forced moderation for new members' posts?

[Clinton]

The short answer is no.

The pre-moderation isn't to teach you how to post, it's to combat spam. 99% of new registrants are here to spam these boards and drop links to their sites. Maybe more than 99%, in the last 24 hours we've probably had more than 100 new registrants. Most of them are not even people, they're bots.

Us not having new members' posts go public immediately on posting works as a major disincentive for spammers to play their games here.

[klausius]

I am just new and registered few mins ago, i can not even edit my profile yet. I do appreciate the idea of battling spam but would wish to get more information"s what is allowed as new member and when restriction might have dropped. So far i read that no links for the first few posts would be a great start so no link here I Got that.