Ya, I have the flood check disabled because I don't like to have the users wait. Never thought of this issue.
Regardless, I don't like to have the floodcheck enabled nor deal with promoted users. I simply need an option to limit the unapproved posts. For now I'm forced to enable the floodcheck...
@Chris D, even if you are limited to 30 seconds, a spammer can post hundreds of messages until you check it next time... say you are asleep like I was... 30 seconds posts x 8 hours = 960 threads.
With the option to limit the number of threads, the spammer would post only 10 threads. A lot easier on database to deal with deletion and also not screwing with the threadid/postid... I just got a HUGE gap now because the idiot that posted 6,000 threads. I have to manually edit the table now to adjust the incremental number on threadid and postid. I hope you realize how annoying this is.
It is very bad for a database to have HUGE id gaps like the one I'm dealing with now. I know this from my own experience with search indexing. Luckily my forums are not busy so I have the luxury to adjust easy the ID's... there is no way I could do this on a busy forum.