I suggested this in another thread, and I'm afraid it may have been buried in with the other discussions.

Any chance of changing the requirements to start a new thread topic to users with a minimum number of posts?

I just noticed another newbie spammer trying to sell his wares on FT.

This change could go a long way to making the lives of our ever-hard working mods just a bit easier.

Another suggestion was to restrict the ability to post urls to a minimum number of posts, which I would also support, but I don't think it would be as effective as restricting the starting of new threads.

Think of all the spammers that would go away