Sorry if I sound a little... Out spoken, but would it not be possible to set it so that after X number of posts, a person is moved to a new user group? It is possible to do this without making any changes that normal people can see. I've played with a number of forum boards, but not this version, so I can't be 100% this is possible. Even adding a requirement of 100 posts would be very effective to stop most ad bots. Also, when a topic or post is reported, is it made invisible, until staff (Moderator) has cleared it? If not, this would make it much easier to combat such problems. Again though, I'm not sure what your limitations are. If ad bots, or massive spam attacks have been a large problem in the past, then I can see how this is being kept as it is. But if there have not been many recent attacks that were not easily handled, perhaps this limit is a tad much. Sorry if it sounds like I'm trying to tell you how to do our job.... Just trying to be helpful. Ciao The flood limit is set forum wide and can not be changed per user group, the only option per user group is to have it off altogether. So while it would be possible to get a person moved to another user group, we can't have that user group with a lower flood limit, otherwise that's what we would have done.