I would like to comment on this post in a detailed manner as follows;

First-of-all, KYC stands for Know Your Customer / Know Your Client

Are we a Customer of this Forum or a Community User of this Forum ?
(I believe we are indeed a User, not a Customer)

Next, KYC is the process of a Business / Bank etc. to verify the identity of it's Customer / Client..
Do you think BitcoinTalk.org is a Registered Business / Company over here, something like BitcoinTalk Private Limited ?

This website was created with love by the creator of this website for all users like us, so that we could interact with each other and grow-up here like a family..
It indeed succeeded as well, as this is the only best Active Forum that i have found online till date, since i have joined here..

Apart from that, the Website Owner would never have an intention to grab the personal data of the users of this website and verify them one-by-one manually and process it daily..
It's not only that it would be hurting the feelings & privacy of a user, but also it means that the Staff at BitcoinTalk are also human beings, they can't spend their entire life verifying each users over here manually everyday..
Even if i take the least count as 100 user register per day at this site, still that would be a hectic job for anyone..

The staff would rather prefer to spend their valuable time to focus on the Forum Contents & other relevant work instead of the Verification Process of all new users..

You see my point is, KYC is something not meant for a forum like this, at-least in my view..
It's indeed a bad idea to even think to deploy it, as long as privacy of a user is of a high concern..

If you have a feeling that KYC is going to reduce the spammers at this website, then it's indeed wrong..
It would rather be a Dream that would never come true..

For a spammer KYC won't be a big deal at all, he can simply grab the data of users from online websites and bypass this step easily..
Nowadays, there are many Sources/Ways to get leak data's of customers, i hope your already aware of the same..

On this forum people don't even use their Real Name to register their Account, majority users prefer to use a nickname, as that's what a forum is all about.
Over here, no-one needs to know "Who you are in real life".. we should only be concerned about "What knowledge do you have & What you can Share/Contribute/Bring to this Forum"

Your name, date of birth, family background, your monthly gross income or your religion doesn't matter over here..

Do you really think anyone would be willing to submit their ID Proof or something similar, just to get their account registered on a forum?


That being said, to decrease the Spamming, we could actually initiate some other steps other than KYC, which brings me straight to the second part of my post..

Mostly the high rank members (i.e. Legendary, Sr. Member, Hero Member) don't post anything trash over here, their post usually have some quality, that's what makes them Sr. Members of the Forum..
(I know there are few exceptions in High Rank Members who have a red mark on their profile and they do post trash sometimes, but that's just a few exceptional cases (minority) over here, we can ignore that for now.)

To target the majority, we already know that the primary cause of Spamming is usually by a Newbie or a Newly created account, they simply start to post links or junk contents of any XYZ site, for promotion or for some other Known/Unknown purpose..
(Please note that,t his doesn't count all Newbie and all Newly Created Users, there are still some good exceptional users out there)


So here it goes, to reduce this spam activity to some extent & to bring some enhancements into the forum, we should actually revise the Privileges for a Newbie as well as Newly Created Account / Brand New Account..

Off-course the newly deployed protocol of "Minimum 1 Merit to become a Jr. Member" is indeed a good one, however that won't reduce the spammers over here.. I mean it doesn't have a good impact over the Newly Registered Users as well as to some Newbie.

So according to me;
A Newly Created account should be modified with the following protocols,
1.) A newly created account cannot start a new topic for the first 30 Days or so. Let them browse through the forum, understand everything and get a good touch of it & decide if they want to continue here as per the Rules & Regulations, else simply EXIT.
2.) Newly created accounts cannot post more than 2 Times per day for the first 30 days. In short they can only post 2 times every day. I said it 2 post per day because, they will get 14 Activity per 14 days (if they stay active on the forum for 7 days at-least, which indirectly means that they will make 2 post per day).
3.) A newly created account cannot post a Link anywhere on the forum during these 30 days restriction period. A minimum of 28 Activity is must for every member to even have the authority to post a link.
(I won't mention anything about restriction of inserting image into the Topic/Post, as if posting links are already banned then it's quite natural that image can't be posted as well)
4.) A newly created account should not able able to post above a specified number of characters per post for the first 30 days, this will ensure that they don't copy-paste some trash from here and there.
5.) If a newbie violates the above rule and still post a link by using a trick by adding space to the link and posting it (For e.g. www. google . com), other members can report that post and get it removed by the Staff. Such post when moderated by the Staff should lead to a +1 warning to the Newbie/New Member, so that they don't repeat this mistake, if they still repeat it then their Account should be banned if they are reported again by any member.

The privilege of a Newbie Account should be modified with a new rule-set as follows,
1.) A Newbie User cannot post any Links on the Forum, unless he completes a minimum Activity of 28 on the Forum. This would be somewhat better to decrease the spam content at some extent because per 2 Week only 14 activity is counted, so it will take around 1 month for every newbie to post a link.
2.) A Newbie User should wait for a minimum spam of 30 days before he can start a New Topic. This is the idle time for the user to learn the flow of the forum and to make some good post than to start a topic first.
3.) A Newbie User can only start 1 Topic per day, unless he becomes a Jr. Member.
4.) A Newbie User can only post 5 times per day for the first 30 days.


The above suggestions may or may not be possible to implement, it may even take sometime as well, but this was just an idea i thought of, nothing else.. 


NOTE:
No offence against any Newbie or Newly Created Accounts or anyone else. My post is not to target or to hurt the feelings of any User. I am a believer that, every user was once a Newbie, no-one was born as a Legendary Member in this Forum. With time everything changes, hence my above post is purely an idea to show a Path/Way to fight against Spammers/Scammers, if possible. I am indeed aware about the fact that there are a good amount of people under Newbie or Brand New accounts whose intentions are not to spam the forum with nonsense post. Thank you for the understanding. God bless you all.