Although you definitely have less spam than post-based sites such as ej.am (lol), there is still a massive list of 10-post members. Basically, I've used many of these post-4-stuff sites, and some of them have really cool strategies used to determine whether to reward the user privileges.
1. Make the reward system consider post length
Rather than making the system give out access after 10 posts and 1 week of membership, make the system based on the post length. This encourages less, more detailed posting. So a member can post 20 times to get access, or they can submit 10 very detailed posts.
2. Enable a sort of 'reputation' system.
Give the user access only after they have received a positive reputation gain. We can smite spammers and applaud uploaders. Spammers will be removed and the good people will be elevated to a godly status.
EDIT: OMG! Just realized there was a reputation system. A question: Does this reputation system affect our access privileges? I can't seem to find a "smite" button (The 'report post' button looks a bit moderator intensive).
3. Threshold per month
Requires the user to pass the required threshold per month. 'nuff said. (Used in conjunction with the above mentioned prevents useless posts)
4. OMG University
Add some sort of feature in SRL to check if the said user is actually 'botting'. If not, then they don't need the access. To regain the access, they need to load SRL and pass the forum threshold. Stops people from wasting bandwidth by downloading and never actually using the scripts.
That's most of what I've seen so far on forums like these - it seems to work well but posts tend to look extremely superficial (like my one, although looks can be deceiving.).



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