(September 20, 2014 at 1:30 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I know that some sites require you to make a number of posts or be a member for a month before you are allowed to start a thread. It would be a good way to cut down on the amount of trolling and spam that we get. This would basically mean that you have to participate at least a little in the forum before coming in and just spamming us with trollish garbage.
I think this has come up before, but I don't recall the resolution offhand. FWIW, there is a plugin that will allow us to do this. I personally think it's an idea worth discussing, with the proviso that the Introductions forum remain open to start new threads - as it is an informal custom to post an introduction, and I think that's worth encouraging.
I do have a feeling that if we did this, it would shift the spamming to existing threads.
