Just a quick note: be careful what you post, or you may get double-secret HRed by bots.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
TS;DR: bring back the waiting period. None of this was necessary when new users had to wait a few days before posting. Tamarack might have continued to write two-word snark, or might have graduated to more nuanced snarkastic novellas, but now we will never know because the spam arms race has begun.