Kirk will never do that. He’s too wedded to the anonymous posting idea to see that it’s killing this website (PSR and the rest included) and only worked when the community was much smaller and not full of spammy trolls
It’s easy for me to say because talk is cheap but you should create that website though (since it seems you are much less ignorant than the rest of us here about how to set it up). Call it EJMR2.com and verify academic emails through a third party so people aren’t scared of having their careers destroyed if the website gets hacked. People here would jump ship en masse if such an option existed. If nothing more to not have to see every other post be an inane troll post..
EJMR has gone to the toilet with the amount of spam in the last two months. It's been putting me off from using the site.
I suggest exploring switching to the [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) forum software. It can be used with little setup cost to solve many of the problems we currently have and have had. It is easy to use their Docker container on a DigitalOcean VPS, and scale as required.
One of Discourse's best features is its ability to create distinct user levels with precise permissions, and rules governing movement to new levels of permissions. With Discourse, you could create fours levels:
Level 3: Kirk - can do everything
Level 2: Mods - can delete threads/posts
Level 1: Regular Users
Level 0: Provisional Users
Level 0 could be granted to users who have a non-academic email address. This level would allow users reply to threads, and to like posts.
Level 1 could be granted to users who have an academic email address, or to Level 0 users who have satisfied some requirements. One example of such a requirement would be three replies to threads over the course of one week. Level 1 users can create threads.
The ability to move from Level 0 to Level 1 is important, because EJMR functions as a whistleblower for our community. It would take some work to fine-tune these parameters, but I think moving to Discourse combined with email registration would greatly abet the spam problems with little effect to ease of use.