suggestion for newcomers

atheism_rule · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 7:26 am

Here's a suggestion. It might just cut down on the spam and the double posts and the bumping of old topopics. I think that when people join the forums, for 24 hours only the rules will be accisible th them, and nothing else. That way, they just might read the rules instead of ignoring them and breaking them.

What do ya'll think?

Adbot · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 7:26 am

Robbie · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 7:28 am

No...

That will just cause them to leave immediately.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 8:03 am

edit: i've just got what you mean lol

Uhh no, that'd put mroe people off than anything else.

Jeff · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 9:12 am

Exactly what Robbie said.

If they don't want to read the rules, they just won't even if you beat them with a stick.

atheism_rule · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 10:21 am

well, maybe if you displayed the rules the first time they sign in, so tht they will at least know that the rules exist

czskrazzi · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 10:26 am

or how about there forum rank is a picture saying "Please read the forum rules" untill they have posted at least i dunno 20times?

Adbot · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 10:26 am

Robbie · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 12:40 pm

czskrazzi wrote:

or how about there forum rank is a picture saying "Please read the forum rules" untill they have posted at least i dunno 20times?

That's a good idea :lol:

Replace bronze member with that

Handmedown · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 1:11 pm

If people wanna post here then they should learn the rules before. Its not our fault if they don't.

Enkidutorix · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 1:27 pm

Handmedown wrote:

If people wanna post here then they should learn the rules before. Its not our fault if they don't.

Some people are totally new to posting on forums so they wouldn't know rules existed on a forum ;\\ This is an interesting topic, maybe put the link to the rules as their default sig untill they change it??

illinialex32 · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 1:38 pm

Some people are totally new to posting on forums so they wouldn't know rules existed on a forum ;\\ This is an interesting topic, maybe put the link to the rules as their default sig untill they change it??[/quote]

Na, we should make the rules more readable
I think we should just have the first screen be about where to post
Then, on a different page, we could show them the edit button and say no double posting
That would work better than a mile long page with rules
I had trouble reading that and mainly skimmed through it

Evelyn · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 4:23 pm

Robbie wrote:

No...

That will just cause them to leave immediately.

Exactly, and the should read the rules before they join, or on the registration pages, the rules show up one of the pages.

Dave · **Posted:** February 5th, 2006, 11:15 pm

illinialex32 wrote:

Na, we should make the rules more readable
I think we should just have the first screen be about where to post
Then, on a different page, we could show them the edit button and say no double posting
That would work better than a mile long page with rules
I had trouble reading that and mainly skimmed through it

If you have looked at the rules Mike wrote they are very organized and clear. They are written in lists, so there is no reason they are not organized.

Making new members not able to post for 24 hours would not be a good idea, it would drive members off probably, or a lot of them. If they want to not get in the trouble then they can take the 5 minutes it takes to read the rules, if they don't care about getting in trouble and possibly banned, then they can not read the rules and post at their own risk.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** February 6th, 2006, 1:06 am

The rules are clearly displayed on every forum, if they slip up and get in trouble then they should look over the rules, if they don't it's there fault we can't force them to read the rules cause they will just leave.

MattVortex · **Posted:** February 6th, 2006, 10:33 am

I think maybe all newcomers should be blocked from posting new topics until they have 50 posts. And any post that hasnt had any replies for a month be automatically locked.

Im sure there's also a mod you can get for phpBB that blocks any post shorter than 20 words (or whatever you set it to, really) from being posted. That would stop pointless posts like the very-well-though-out "lol?" ive seen before.

And if that doesnt work....

*Fetches flaming torch and pitchfork*

KILL THE NOOBS!

Dave · **Posted:** February 6th, 2006, 11:55 am

MasterOfTheVortex wrote:

I think maybe all newcomers should be blocked from posting new topics until they have 50 posts. And any post that hasnt had any replies for a month be automatically locked.

Im sure there's also a mod you can get for phpBB that blocks any post shorter than 20 words (or whatever you set it to, really) from being posted. That would stop pointless posts like the very-well-though-out "lol?" ive seen before.

And if that doesnt work....

*Fetches flaming torch and pitchfork*

KILL THE NOOBS!

Sorry but I don't think any of those suggestions would help the community. A lot of people join and make their topics for clans or questions ect. If they have to wait to get 20 posts before they can do that they will just go somewhere, which over time will make the community get less popular.