Do you think this might be a good way for Fluther to help eliminate spam?

Lately, as I’m sure everyone has noticed, there has been a lot of spam on Fluther. I know spam here seems to come in waves – periods where there’s a lot of it, and then periods when it’s quiet. Lately there are new users who post 20 or 40 spam links per day, which is a lot of the mods, who are volunteers, to deal with, no doubt.

I know there’s no new site development, but if there could be a suggestion made, and if the suggestion was considered, it would help the mods by helping keep spam down. My suggestion would be, for Fluther to not allow new users to ask or answer any questions for a certain time period, perhaps one 24 hour period.