But that wouldn't be fair on genuine new users, which I'm sure none of us want and it wouldn't promote the forum in the best light (but then again, neither does a bucketload of spam).
Another possibility would be to temporarily create a Spam Filter forum and make that publicly available and hide every other forum. You could put all the forums (except Spam Filter) into one (passworded) master forum, which means that you should be able to only need to input the password once to access all sections.
It may also be possible to set a delete thread timer on the Spam Filter forum to delete all threads every X hours. You may be able to automatically ban members who post a thread in the Spam Filter section. I imagine that would reduce admin workload by quite a bit.
How much of all this can a super mod do?
In the long run though, IMO upgrades are the only satisfactory way to improve matters. If admin had to approve every new member with the situation (and software version) as it is now, then the workload would still be the same, it would just all be done behind the scenes.
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