well, i think this review users aren't from your vb-database are they?
you can insert threads directly via the database:
so your script has a db-connection just run two insert querys, one inserts the thread, the other one the first post.
you don't need to create a dummy user, because you are working directly on the db, you can make them as a guestpost, which has the username of the reviewer (or any dummy user name..)
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