Originally Posted by Tom Stormcrowe

I'll ease restrictions on some aspects soon as the bot wve passes.

Originally Posted by Kimmo

Is it really? Many forums have a minimum post count (say 100) before certain features become available; surely vBulletin is capable of that?

The vast majority of spammers would be weeded out well before 100 posts, no? And the odd one that made it through could be reported easily enough.

Or why not just disable links (which is enough of a bummer already) rather than killing all the BBCode?

It seems a bit rough to ask me to cough up in order to continue generating the kind of content that keeps folks coming to the Mechanics forums to ask questions and look at your ads. It might be nice if you could identify the valued contributors in such subforums and offer them a free membership if unpaid members are to be crippled.