Quote Originally Posted by autumnrain26 View Post
I believe that it is assumed that these measures are in place to help slow down the congestion on the forums
If they are worried about the forums crashing there are other less restrictive measures. For example after X amount of posts a user cannot post for 15 minutes. This prevents needless spamming. There have been way better implementations done by other companies. Heck if you are worried about random folk spamming the forums and crashing the servers don't give access to anyone without an active account except for certain sections.

IMO if you are crashing every few days from people posting and need to take such restrictive measures against the active community:
1) Your management skills are shoddy
2) Hire qualified folk who know how to set up a more reliable system