Comment by tombert
Yeah, and the simple $10 one-time-fee actually is surprisingly effective at filtering out spam bots and people who post crap content. People don't just make an account in thirty seconds and create a bunch of spam until they're banned, or at least they don't do that much because it would get relatively expensive fairly quickly.
At the very least the few weirdos that seem to create daily accounts just to get banned after 2-3 posts are funding forum by doing so.