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"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
-Omar Khayyám-
Posted by: HOOBLA 911
...to post/make threads?
Currently, when a new account is made, the Member must wait 1 day to make threads. However, they can post in threads from the start.
Would it be more beneficial if we delayed that a bit? Maybe make it so you have to wait 3 days to make a thread and 1 day to reply to threads. This could help with two things: making it a bit harder for trolls to make alts, and to ensure that the new member reads the rules.
Adding on to the "reads the rules" theme, I think it would also be beneficial if new members automatically got a message from the Disembodied Soul linking them to the Forum Rules and encouraging them to read it.
What do you think?
-hoobla-
I like the points I underlined in the quote. Those are very good ideas and I think it would be for the best to have new members or new accounts to wait longer for any type of posting so as to have them get better aquainted with the site and the rules.
Also I believe it should be more imperative to have a message sent to new accounts with a link to the rules page so they could peruse them, or maybe to have the message give an overall jist of the rules so the new users could understand what and what not to do.
I know this sounds like we are, essentially, coddling new accounts/users but with the way I have seen some of the users act, it makes this idea seem all the more reasonable to implement.
I, for one, agree to the points made.
EDIT: I also agree with FoMan's suggestions of lengthing the time to 30 days, which would guarantee that a user who wishes to be an actual part of this site would be active and rule abiding and not some spammer or anon type user.
We could also implement a new warning/banning system which would have a big message scrawl on a user's profile that they have been warned, blacklisted, banned, or perma-banned by a mod when they have broken the rules and the mod sent them the specific rule the user broke and the post which broke said rule.
It would crack down on 99.9% of the users who cry about not breaking any rules when they have a message saying otherwise.
[Edited on 07.22.2012 5:36 PM PDT]