Are you trying to alienate new users and drive them away from the site?
They would still be able to post on other topics. And if it drives away Spammers, then yes, I would love to alienate spammers and people who come on here and create WTS topics where they talk down to everyone else, and about how great their stuff is (including my personal favorite member on this site)
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just out of curiosity- is there any kind of way to track the amount of forum members month to month and retroactively? I wonder if we are just getting a lot of new people, or we are in fact getting dumber.
nickfil wrote:just out of curiosity- is there any kind of way to track the amount of forum members month to month and retroactively? I wonder if we are just getting a lot of new people, or we are in fact getting dumber.
If you click members on the top of the forum page, it lists everyone in order of when they signed up.
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I really don't post as much as I used to due to all the crap subjects on here lately. This site is like the Wii. Its great, fun and different theres just a lot of shovelware to go through at the moment.
There should be some standards of grammar and literacy too. Not saying my grammar or writing are great or crystal clear (English is not even my first language), but sometimes is really difficult to understand some people.
I like most of the ideas listed here. I'm a new member, and what attracted me to this forum was the quality of posts and the way this forum is run. I spent a few days diving through the old posts before I posted anything and I've definitely noticed a drop in quality recently. There are some new spam-filters I was reading about a while back that might be of some use here. In particular there was one that doesn't allow the same message to be posted again which had some success in removing the "yes" and "you suck" type posts. Another used artificial intelligence to grade a poster's intelligence and had a cut-off point (leet speak gives a fail) and angry/attack posting rarely gets through. I can dig up the site that compared them if that would be useful.
On the other side of the coin I have been to boards that had new member posting rules that were so restrictive that even tho I had something to contribute I was never able to post it (found threads on a google search for what I was researching and couldn't contribute to the problem people were having).
mandatory post counts are not great if someone has a fairly important question and a new topic would be beneficial. That being said, it would be a good idea to have a minimum status before they post in the bst forum. That would stop some of the spam we used to get in there about cell phones and crap.
I'd like to see the bst threads cleaned up.
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ubelaffe wrote:mandatory post counts are not great if someone has a fairly important question and a new topic would be beneficial. That being said, it would be a good idea to have a minimum status before they post in the bst forum. That would stop some of the spam we used to get in there about cell phones and crap.
I'd like to see the bst threads cleaned up.
trouble is, spammers will just try to hawk there cell phones in other categories
