Melena, after thinking about all of this I agree that requiring a short intro post would be a good idea. I have set the text of the "welcome" e-mail that users het with their password advising then they need to make a post or be deleted and also put a sticky at the top of this board.
Pardon me while I go "off" a few suspicious looking loiterers...

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