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[SolxBurst]

I'll get straight to the point on this one. To prevent members from clogging up the "Recent Topics" sidebar and to help prevent topic spam from newcomers. We should have a limit on how many topics you can make a day/hour or whatever frequency that works best. The point is, there should never be a need for someone to post 5 topics within the same hour and it should be limited, or it should at least be limited for new members till they get to a certain milestone.

Please, tell me what you think about this idea!

[Occult Satanist]

it would be nice if new members under 20 quality posts couldnt make a topic and those who can make a topic can only make 1 an hour

[Guy Fieri]

I like this idea, it helps clean up spam. As for the limit, I'd say it should either be hourly or daily. Maybe like 2 threads an hour, or 3 threads a day. Unless it's a huge news day, I don't think there's much reason to be creating over 3 threads a day.

[Nollog]

There's no real merit to this.
If they make the mistake, surely they will receive a warning or get a more serious response from the staff as the situation deserves,

Imagine you're new, you make an introduction thread, and then go to hardware help because you can't sync your wiimote only to be told "Nope, chuck testa. Also you can't post new threads until 5 minutes from now".
You'd leave the forum.
And these people aren't a problem at all imo.

[aaron]

it would be nice if new members under 20 quality posts couldnt make a topic and those who can make a topic can only make 1 an hour

Then they wouldn't be able to make Introduction threads.
Or do you mean threads that count as posts?

Edited by Firejoni3, 24 February 2013 - 07:02 PM.

[Occult Satanist]

Then they wouldn't be able to make Introduction threads.
Or do you mean threads that count as posts?

threads that count as posts .............also lets make it 5-10 quality posts rather then 20

[SolxBurst]

Imagine you're new, you make an introduction thread, and then go to hardware help because you can't sync your wiimote only to be told "Nope, chuck testa. Also you can't post new threads until 5 minutes from now".
You'd leave the forum.
And these people aren't a problem at all imo.

There would have to be some exceptions to the rules, and the limit should probably be at 2-3. But I understand your concern.

I just don't want situations where someone (dtrexgaming is the most recent incident) posts 5 topics all at once, fills the entire recent topics list, and causes all other recent topics to be pushed away and not found as easily. I think it is unnecessary that you can post that many topics in such a short time frame.

[Nollog]

There would have to be some exceptions to the rules, and the limit should probably be at 2-3. But I understand your concern.

I just don't want situations where someone (dtrexgaming is the most recent incident) posts 5 topics all at once, fills the entire recent topics list, and causes all other recent topics to be pushed away and not found as easily. I think it is unnecessary that you can post that many topics in such a short time frame.

My explosions were more recent dagnabbit.
I think roleplay/spam shouldn't be in the recent thread list at all.

[Xiombarg]

I think roleplay/spam shouldn't be in the recent thread list at all.

This would actually be a great idea. I also believe another member mentioned that only the gaming section should be in recent topics.

[Auzzie Wingman]

You know what would be cool, is when you do create a topic, you'd receive a list of similar named topics for which you could prevent a double topic.

I mean, that kind of thing would only work IF people used appropriate topic titles, something that I've long suggested in Site News and Feedback, and approved by Feld0 among others.

[SoldMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

Somebody give the OP a job! I agree 100%