This restriction could only be useful against spam bots but a regular user could find an easy way around it.
Make a genuine, on-topic post, get approved, and then start the spam fest. You would only be slowing the spammers down for the time needed to get approved. And moderators would need to spend too much time filtering those posts.
It's mostly for spam bots and spam bots wont know about it. It's not really to try catch 'regular' users out on something.
How immediately do you think people need something answering?
It depends. Some newbie may need to confirm if what he/she visited is a phishing site before entering personal information and I think that has to be answered immediately.
What makes you think they would even get an answer?
Ahhh because this forum has a lot of users who can help?
I don't think it would take long to verify at all and more mods could be added to meet demand.
Say for example there are 1,000+ newbies posted immediately after the other, will it take a few minutes for the 1000
th post to get approved? My response is also under the assumption that there will be no additional mods.
Again, I don't think it will take that long to verify them. Most urgent reports get handled very quickly and it's only stuff like sig spam reports that tend to stay in the queue long-term or don't get handled. I don't think we'll ever get 1000 brand new accounts posting after the other but I can't tell you exactly how long it would take or how much workload it would add but I think people are exaggerating or being overly cautious on the issues it may cause but if it did become apparent that it was causing a backlog or strain on moderation I'm sure there's plenty of willing people who would make good patrollers to help verify them.