Have you been getting a lot of spammers? Or any even? This sounds to me like an over-reaction to something that isn't even a small problem. Personally I think the best way you can discourage and stop new music fans from joining here, and getting them involved, is to start putting obstacles in their way on day 1, and treating all newbies like 2nd class citizens who have to go through some sort of trial period before they even have access to everything that the rest of us do. The easiest way to prevent spammers is to ban their asses as soon as they spam, and delete their crap, which would take about 60 seconds in total. There's like 20 mods and admins on here who could deal with this issue, why go down the road of.... "Hi, welcome to CRF, have fun, and oh, by the way, in case you are a spammer, you can't PM anybody until you have posted 20 times". I think that sends a terrible message, it's hostile and unwelcoming, and suspicious and untrusting of people, 99.9% of whom won't be spammers.
