(September 20, 2014 at 11:45 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: If there was a post count requirement then you'd be pretty much required to participate in the community. Which I think is a good thing also it would clear up all the trolls and what really is the downside to it unless it is a technically difficult thing to do?
A post count requirement only clears up the poor trolls. The good ones know how to stick around... how to become integrated: a part of the system.
It's irritating if I want to get into an interesting discussion right away, and don't want to dick around talking about something stupid like atheism or how someone's christian mother is an idiot. Any sort of raised postcount has the potential to alienate, or worse, bore any newcomer who has something they want to say.
In some ways, such threads provide the lifeblood for this forum. They're points of laughter when begun by the insane... can you imagine how utterly tedious trawling through AF would be if only members who had established more posts than *5* could post new threads anywhere but introductions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFEoMO0pc7k
Mang.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
