Wow...that's funny. I'm also active on two other forums and am an admin on another and was thinking the same thing.

This is also to say that there are anti-spam measures for forums that don't involve a ridiculous new member post count to work? In fact, through being site admin for two different software versions (vBulletin and now PHPbb) on another forum we've never used any type of post count restriction, and also rarely had spam issues.

Maybe admin staff needs to take a look at vBulletin's other spam-reduction methods?

At this point all I want to do is ask a time sensitive question, and would then become active on here, but now I am replying to threads for no reason, trying to get post count up...just to ask a question.