We have now had 9 new members and only 14 spammers since this "test" has begun. This is the good side. However, we have gone done from approximately 550 visitors with 35 of them being members during any period to approximately 190 visitors with 70 of them being members. This is the bad side.

The members that are now logged in don't seem to have raised out posts by any significant amount and we are going to loose the viewership of the hundreds of visitors that will no longer come back after 2-3 attempts.

I know that I would certainly much rather not approve the 20-30 spammers a day and approve the 2-3 new members a week then have it the way it is trending now. Once you've lost the game plan it is hard to recoup it.