Suggestion to improve the forum

Can we make it so that you can't post links until you've posted in / created more than 20 topics?

I think you’re thinking about stopping SPAM, which is good. 20 feels excessive though, for genuine users, but also isn’t fool proof. You could just write Hi! In the first 20 topics then post what you want. 

I agree though that links need to be quarantined until they have been approved by MODS or something similar.

The Riddler - This is under active discussion, but you're right that we have to choose measures carefully. The spammers are specifically trying to behave as much like genuine users as possible, so of course anything we do may affect real users as well. And yes, if they can detect what we're doing, they will respond with posts such as you suggest, to get around our measures, which is why you won't see me saying what we are doing!

But we know that more is needed.

The Riddler - This is under active discussion, but you're right that we have to choose measures carefully. The spammers are specifically trying to behave as much like genuine users as possible, so of course anything we do may affect real users as well. And yes, if they can detect what we're doing, they will respond with posts such as you suggest, to get around our measures, which is why you won't see me saying what we are doing!

But we know that more is needed.

Thanks for your reply.