All are very good ideas, but only the admin can make the changes. Also advanced spambot scripts can cheat the captcha or pictures. There are even paid programs (~€250) for those who want very advanced spambots without doing all the programming.
I don't think it targets the sections in alphabetical order. Spambots usually target dozens or hundreds of forums at the same time. These forums can easily be detected by search for "Powered by vBulletin" using any search engine. The same applies for forums powered by other platforms.
Closing the AMA section will result in a different section to be spammed in. Maybe even the more crowded sections: Dares, Truth, ReTorDO? The same happened when I closed certain blog entries in which the spambot posted spam comments. Closing them resulted in posting threads in the AMA section. When I allowed access to the same blog entries again, the spambot went back to these blog entries. One á two weeks went by and the spambot targets the AMA section now.
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