- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
One good way to counter spammers, rather then removing the post count, is to intergrate a reputation system smimilar to what teamxbox.com forums have. You can give people a positive, or negative rep point for their post. That way, if people try to get their post count sky high by spamming, it wont matter because even though they'll have a good reputation by high post count, everyone will know their reputation is actually bad by their negative rep score. It's a great system. I didn't like it at first because I thought it could be misused but it has counteractive measures to make sure it wont like if you give someone a negative rep point you must give out rep points to several other people first before you can give a rep point to the first person again. That way people can't flood someone with negative rep points.