This kind of safeguard to spam will ironically lead to spam attacks.
How easy it would be to flood the forum "pending post" database with huge numbers of posts to delay the moderators - Bitcointalk would have no chance.
Consider the current state of the forum: how spam is dealt with.
User reports post.
Mod looks at report and deletes post if it is spam.
If there's still spam around the forum then certainly the problem is either not enough reporting or not enough moderating. I don't anticipate the addition of many mods which would alleviate the latter and I don't expect the former to change any time soon.
Degradation has already set in with the Altcoin boards and I really don't expect posts to be moderated en masse. Do you really think mods will have time to pore over thousands of bounty reports, thousands of ICO comments, thousands of shills? Maybe if we get an equal amount of staff for the section
How easy it would be to flood the forum "pending post" database with huge numbers of posts to delay the moderators - Bitcointalk would have no chance.
Consider the current state of the forum: how spam is dealt with.
User reports post.
Mod looks at report and deletes post if it is spam.
If there's still spam around the forum then certainly the problem is either not enough reporting or not enough moderating. I don't anticipate the addition of many mods which would alleviate the latter and I don't expect the former to change any time soon.
Degradation has already set in with the Altcoin boards and I really don't expect posts to be moderated en masse. Do you really think mods will have time to pore over thousands of bounty reports, thousands of ICO comments, thousands of shills? Maybe if we get an equal amount of staff for the section