First off, this captcha-per post thing is ridiculous. I'm not one to be very mean, but if they passed the captcha in the registration and the security details you set in place for email validation, then you shouldn't need to do this.
FYI, CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA are constantly being beaten by spam bots, and by circumvention means.
They were primarily set up on account creation to be one method of stopping those registrations, which works in spurts as Google refines reCAPTCHA to beat the bots and the spammers refine their tools to beat reCAPTCHA. I wasn't aware that there is a prompt on posting, as the moderating of posts should be it.
Another thing and this isn't to mean offense, but it's not like this place is booming that one person (mod or admin) couldn't take care of it. I had to wait a day for a post to be acknowledged and accepted -- if I was going to RP here, I don't know if I would have even bothered.
It's not booming of actual real users. But for spam registrations:
Today, as of 6:30PM Central:
75 blocked registrations
Yesterday, March 14th:
115 blocked registrations
And that's not including any attempted registrations from blacklisted domains, which is currently almost to 800 domains. And all of those registration attempts beat reCAPTCHA.
So, you tell me if all of those registrations were allowed and attempted to post on random threads if you'd like to take care of it day in and day out, especially when it's not your full time job and, quite frankly, especially recently, I don't manage to check here each and every day.
If there is a better way and you're willing to share, then that's fine, share. But I don't see anything in your post like that, so until then, we'll keep going along like this.
You had [...] your tweenies and younger teens crowd. The [younger teens] group has almost fully migrated to MMOs and were only here for the "lulz" to begin with.
Which is the crowd I actually fall into, though I wouldn't mind trying to get back into something here (most definitely something in the d20 vein), I'm having trouble finding the time to actually dive in (due to other interests and work).