5 posts to start a new topic

ARcanUSNUMquam · none Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 42

Let the guys post in Help Wanted without the requirement, but elsewhere keep it.

mjd · none Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 38

Don't you think that'd be the most likely place for spammers to want to spam though?

PingBad · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 2064 Location: New Zealand

blue1 · none Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 9

Agree kind of makes asking for help hard.

Pimpin8EZ · none Joined: 28 Feb 2006 Posts: 7

DeMiNe0 · Posted: May 22, 2006 11:25am Post subject:

Or you could do what I do, and require image verification in order to register. When you give users a goal(5 posts to make a thread in this case), i find that they take the easiest rout to gaining that goal's reward. This may include spamming, and useless posts.

Bandit · none Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 13

yeah, but this also blocks out those people who need help...including me
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DeMiNe0 · Posted: May 23, 2006 3:16pm Post subject:

If need be.... Why not make an introduction forum, and require atleast one new thread in that forum before a new thread can be posted anywhere else? Hell, you can even make it so no-one can post until a thread is made there.

Not only would this cut down on spamming (Or limit the spamming to one forum only) but it would give all our users a place to say hello, and introduce themself.

If you need help implementing somthing like that, PM me. I've done it on one other phpbb board. I'll see if i can fish up the changes i made for you.

Jason · Posted: May 23, 2006 6:26pm Post subject:

I think the requirement has been 1 post for a few months.

Ruadh4 · none Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 11

Yes, I completly agree.. When I opened this account, it was to ask for help with a searchIRC issue. But as I was not able to post in the support forum I had to make contact via E-mail.

I'm sure that must make the admins job harder!

SKoRM · none Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

Forum games is always fun. You know the ones like...

I say "food"
next person says "dog" because the last letter of food is "d"
next person says "goat"

I am also a newbie, and i've been trying to find topic in which is can "post" so i can get my 5 posts

Alex59 · none Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 3

Hello,

I'm pretty new and would very much present my irc network, but I'm not able since I have to post 5 threads before I can do that. I don't know, but would it be an idea to let people that have their newly IRC Network added be given the uppertunity to present their network:?:

tZers · none Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 13

It is ANNOYING!!!
I want to ask for help but I dont want to spam!!!

FuRiOuS · Lurker Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 244

Ok I understand that it's a bit annoying truly it is. But if you stop and consider how much useless bs spam would appear otherwise, it's understandable. I might be wrong here, but I don't think the staff are being paid to moderate these boards, so they do it in their freetime because they like doing it. Which means that while they are here to assist everyone who needs help, the main goal is also to keep their job as easy as possible. So by eliminating the needs to have a moderator checking boards every few minutes makes it a little harder for new people to post then I'm sorry but I would make the same decision as well.

bsperan · none Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 10

I will confess, I'm a newbie here. Wink

So I may be a bit biased. However, I have to agree: The minimum of 5 posts is quite annoying.

"Why?", you may ask? Because at first, all I really wanted to do was make a short post to the 'Suggestions / Comments' forum. I had a suggestion that I thought might improve this site for everyone. I wanted to post about it while it was still fresh on my mind. What could be more innocent? However, it did not seem to fit into an established thread.

As a result, I was force to wade through countless old forums and threads to find several subjects I could post about. But my heart was not really into it as I had pressing responsibilities and a lot of other things on my mind. It felt a bit like gradeschool, being force to do something before getting to recess. Or, a bit like filling out and returning various forms to accomplish an otherwise simple goal.

I do understand the logic, the reasoning behind this requirement. I hate SPAM as much as the next member. But why must it be five posts? Why wouldn't a mere two posts do the job?

Either that, or why not add a "Suggestion Box" to the site entrance? (Perhaps an email address?) It's the little things that add up...