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Paladuck

Some forums make their users have X number of posts before they can create their own threads.

I think it would cut down a bit on spam...or it may just make the bots spam up the place so they can create new threads.

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Useless

I remember suggesting this back when.
Something about encouraging new members to share information was why this isnt implemented.

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Xenonight2

Sorry, but this is very unlikely to happen.

The Staff is not going to inconvenience members who just want to ask a simple question because the Moderators don't want to deal with a little extra spam.

And also, it would help very little with spam anyway. A lot of spambots nowadays put their advertisements in their sig and make somewhat normal posts, or make normal posts and hotlink random words with advertisements. New topics aren't necessary for them to get their message across.

There's no good reason to implement this.

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Useless

But to be real, even a 1 post prerequisite would do wonders.

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Sandman53

Possibly, but at the same time it may create a lot more spam as those members will just spam other threads. This makes it even harder to weed out as we need to search for the posts instead.

Its a double-edged sword really.

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Kabaal

I've seen it tried on another board in the past where they implemented 10 posts as a requirement to create a thread. It simply resulted in people spamming 10 irrelevant answers in different threads until they could create the topic they desired. Needless to say, the 'improvement' was removed a few days later.

Paladuck

I think the inconvenience is greatly overstated. 99.9% of topics created are by people with enough posts to create them.

It will pretty much only prevent one-post spamming.

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