Newbie here too (but not really a newbie if you know what I mean
) maybe captcha would be a better solution to discerning who is a bot rather than forcing us to make a post here first.
Or perhaps a 'reputation' system could be put in place so that if someone spams/swears everywhere they could get warned, and eventually confined to one forum/banned.
It certainly serves its purpose as it is, but for someone like me who is registering to post immediately in other places they have been browsing, it's really rather irritating.
