children = noobs
ok, so i know that this forum has a rollercoaster effect, mainly pertaining to FFA. i do not mind booty/hot girl threads but they are happening once a week now and people dont search (there are 30+ page threads on them probably from months ago). sometimes things are dead, other times they are lively and kickin' but along with that comes drama and etc etc. lately people have been so annoying they are dragging og people and mods who usually arent real jackasses into personal grudges and whatnot. this has to stop.
i wish i had saved my signature i had about a month ago with a few simple rules for posting here. it was more to be funny but they were legit.
right now im asking:
a) please get rid of the post count. if people really want to see how veteran someone is, they can still see the date registered. (you are not your fucking post count!) these noobs are racking up hundreds in less than a month. with my old camrydan username i posted pretty frequently from what *i thought* and when i switched over to this dan account, i had a little more than a 1300? or so with camrydan and that was within a year and like 4 months. quality points can remain so admins can monitor their purposes for those and those never reflect post #s since it depends on the size of the post (and if people wanted lots of quality points, they would have to spend more time racking up huge posts which i would hope would have some kind of substance to them).
b) come up with a limit for newbies. either do not let them post more than such amounts for their first month or until they reach a certain post #. i dont know if the php whatever this board is allows that. what would be easier is to ban people from posting in (but allowing them to read) FFA until they are for example, say, up to 100 posts and/or 1 month old. this would encourage them to go into tech and car related forums and prove they are here for at least some aspect of what TR has to offer. and if we catch them whoring around in the newbie forum or TTT'ing for sale threads to up their count, we can set their limit higher for being 'bad' lol. this wont necessarily stop the current hoarde of whores we have roaming about but will help the future members get integrated into the site instead of just joining up, posting in newbie forum, then heading straight for free-for-all to ask for porn and flash programs to waste time on.
c) resetting peoples post counts back down to low #s is another suggestion im just going to throw in here, i think it might work with some but with others it will just encourage post whoring to get it back up in # again (which is why id rather it not be visible except on the profile page (it is like this on certain sites and if i just get curious to my post count # i can look but not have everone know it all the time). even resetting EVERYONE'S (minus admin or something maybe) post counts would keep everyone's 'registered' date intact but maybe set some people straight. i dunno.
i would love to have everyone have to re-register, but that would kill the 'registered' dates and etc and would be alot more work to give people access to this forum and the girlie forum and admin forum. i suggest the A option, with maybe the B added for the noobs but bar them from posting in FFA for like their first month.
and i know alot of the so called problems dont have anything to do with being a postwhore and just with being a general jackass to the rest, hell ive even lashed out lately just because im seeing so much bickering that i have to stoop to their level so theyll listen to me and stfu sometimes.
your thoughts on this are encouraged.
thanks and have a nice day. i love you guys in here
