Thanks for that @samccann
Should we put first-post-requires-moderation to a vote before we enable it? Or should we just go for it?
With Steering Committee folks as moderators I feel like we have enough coverage to avoid excessive delay for approval that would discourage first-time posters.
If I were you I’d go for it, there has been no dissent AFAIK. 
Yep. It would be great to have it activated as soon as possible. There was just another wave of spam with videos (looks like porn, also from the text, but I only see a blurry picture so 
).
There was just another wave of spam with videos
Yikes. I’m sorry you were exposed to that.
I’m looking through the admin settings but do not see an option that matches first-post-requires-moderation. I also looked in the wrench icon for each category to check those settings. Also looked through Discourse docs and threads but I’m not sure.
I’d rather ask than make a change in ignorance. Is the right setting to require mod approval the Approve post count setting under admin/users/settings?
The way I have done this on other forums is set it so that all Trust Level 0 users need to have all their posts manually approved, this does result in people sometimes needing to have more than one post to be approved — how quickly they move to Trust Level 1 depends on their and other users activity (as far as I’m aware, eg someone liking a post to the new user thread).
From reading the screenshot and searching the web a bit it seems that this is correct. I’m not sure what the two fields below that mean though.
From Configuring automatic post review triggers - Administrators - Discourse Meta it also seems correct 
Thanks @chris and @felixfontein
I’ve set approve post count to 1:
The way I have done this on other forums is set it so that all Trust Level 0 users need to have all their posts manually approved, this does result in people sometimes needing to have more than one post to be approved — how quickly they move to Trust Level 1 depends on their and other users activity (as far as I’m aware, eg someone liking a post to the new user thread).
I believe we can do this with the Approve unless allowed groups setting. Because trust levels are inherited (TL2 = TL1 + TL0, etc), the behaviour you describe should take effect if we change trust_level_0 to trust_level_1.
Just to be cautious and not make too many changes at once, I think we should see how things go with the approve post count setting.
A colleague suggested to have a look at stopforumspam.
I didn’t find the time to really look into this and don’t know anything about it, but I wanted to share this info with you. Maybe it would possibly help, maybe not… I don’t know but wanted to mention this to you.
There doesn’t appear to be a Discourse plugin?
Well, it looks like you’re right and there isn’t an official plugin for Discourse. But I’ve found an unofficial one.
