When i get time, i'll look at removing all of the anti spam and other filtering. Then implement a moderated joining process, so that all users wanting to join will go into a queue awaiting a moderators approval.

This means that the moderators will need to look at the moderation list each day to decide if a new registration should be allowed to join the community.

This process has stopped the spammers 99% on the protonbasic forum.

There will be a few users (spammers) that are lurking, so it takes a few weeks before the system becomes "clean", but on the protonbasic forum the drop in spam was noticeable over night.

Is anybody unhappy with this proposed solution?