I agree. I had a support question that I really needed answers for and the reddit community couldn't help. I come here exasperated at 2 in the morning to try and post, and I find out I have to reply to a thread and get "moderator approval" first.
Sorry, but this is a really idiotic form of anti-spam. How about you just, I don't know, hire a larger moderator team, or rely on the community to properly report spam? That is what pretty much every other forum does, and it really doesn't require a lot of infrastructure.
So now I am stuck replying to a weeks old post because it is the only thing I could find that was relevant for venting my frustrations.
Also, doesn't anyone else find it slightly ironic that the anti-spam encourages spam? I mean, most users will want to post a message as quickly as possible just to get greenlit. That's especially true for my case, since all I want to do on here is open a support thread since no searches turned up any threads that resolved my particular issue. You could probably just make the support threads open automatically and lock the discussion threads; that seems fair.