RE: 30/30 Rule
February 21, 2015 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2015 at 7:46 pm by Violet.)
30 days is a long time to wait, actually... 30 posts can take an awful long time for some people to make. I do not think that this is all that necessary: most of our 'members' will post fewer than 5 posts (most of those 0 or 1) and never come back.
Perhaps the rule would be more palatable and encourage more forum growth on but 10/10? Hell... if a person is still coming back here after a week: that's huge statistically. Member pages 56 to 94 have between 30 and 10 posts... and that's a lot of members who may have become more active participants had the 30/30 rule been not so difficult to reach... after all, everyone's got external content that they'd like to link, and plenty of people join the forum as a result of something external that got them interested in the subject, and when they get here might find that they can't share it for at least a month... which can potentially lose new members the excitement of whatever brought them here.
Hell, I'm plenty a fan of a 7-7 days-posts, possibly with an additional character-limit rule (700 perhaps? Might be too high, idk)... and I'm also plenty a fan of instead of having to accumulate 30 posts AND 30 days: having to accumulate only the post amount (an OR setup won't work because of people who can create the account and come back in x days for the spam). Spammers and shitters want in, and done, and to move on.
Asking every new member to have to put in 30 posts and 30 days of being here before linking anything that excites them can simply be a forum turnoff... it takes plenty of effort and patience, and this is the internet age.
For consideration,
-Violet
Also... is there any real reason that a person can't make all of these posts in 1 day? I see no drawback, myself. 30 posts made in a day is a booster to forum activity (encourages growth). Still don't think 30 should be required, but hey: I don't make the rules.
Perhaps the rule would be more palatable and encourage more forum growth on but 10/10? Hell... if a person is still coming back here after a week: that's huge statistically. Member pages 56 to 94 have between 30 and 10 posts... and that's a lot of members who may have become more active participants had the 30/30 rule been not so difficult to reach... after all, everyone's got external content that they'd like to link, and plenty of people join the forum as a result of something external that got them interested in the subject, and when they get here might find that they can't share it for at least a month... which can potentially lose new members the excitement of whatever brought them here.
Hell, I'm plenty a fan of a 7-7 days-posts, possibly with an additional character-limit rule (700 perhaps? Might be too high, idk)... and I'm also plenty a fan of instead of having to accumulate 30 posts AND 30 days: having to accumulate only the post amount (an OR setup won't work because of people who can create the account and come back in x days for the spam). Spammers and shitters want in, and done, and to move on.
Asking every new member to have to put in 30 posts and 30 days of being here before linking anything that excites them can simply be a forum turnoff... it takes plenty of effort and patience, and this is the internet age.
For consideration,
-Violet
Also... is there any real reason that a person can't make all of these posts in 1 day? I see no drawback, myself. 30 posts made in a day is a booster to forum activity (encourages growth). Still don't think 30 should be required, but hey: I don't make the rules.
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