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onewheelwizzard:
100 does seem kinda steep to me.  20-30 makes more sense.

axerton:
I think we just need to find some way to enforce lurking for a fair while before posting - either new threads or new posts.

the_pied_piper:
I agree that 100 is a bit steep but 10 doesn't seem too harsh to me. It gives people a chance to get the feel of the boards first and it could keep the spambots from starting new threads too.

I also think there should be a daily limit on posters with less than 100 posts though. Again, 10 would seem fair to me. This might be seen as cliquey and ornery but there seem to be a fair few forumites who end up posting 20+ times in their first day and then get driven away because they obviously haven't got a feel for the forum communities yet.

benji:
 I don't really see this as neccessary. It's not like most of the forums have a huge number of threads started by new members. It happens ocationally, but not often enough for me to worry about it. The only place where it seems to happen somewhat regularly is comic talk, and the threads started by new folks there seem of about the same quality as those started by regulars there.

snalin:
Is it just a foregone conclusion that every established member makes good threads? I'm not going to accuse this board of elitism, I never felt that it was a problem when I joined, nor now. It's not that new members gets hated on unless they deserve it, but if we don't give people a chance to try to make posts or threads, we're not really going to be able to accept them into the community at all. We tried this in the DISCUSS forums, and the result seems to be that new posters just try to discuss here instead (see "fuck the police" thread). If people can't access the off topic section, they'll just go off topic elsewhere, probably in comics discussion, and then those guys will get mad at us, and that'll just make some poor mod's day a fucking shithole.

And you are aware that there's some very active posters that's never posted outside of the comics discussion, right? I counted 10 people in this WCT with more than 500 posts (some had many more than me), out of which I've seen 3 before, and one of them (Akima) has only recently been showing up a bit in DISCUSS. If we enforce a rule like this, we should realize that there's a completely separate (and probably much more accepting) community sharing the same boards, and if they can only post up there to begin with, they'll probably never drift down to what seems to be the isolationiststic boards down here.

Also, the mechanics works pretty well already, if new poster makes a bad thread it usually gets so much hate that we'll never see the guy ever again. Of course, most of the new posters that make threads that I see is someone spamming online boards to join their "free" mmo, or something like this thread (again), and we can see from the responses to that that not only does these threads get killed, but they also let posters get an outlet for their pent up hateful sarcasm, so I'm in favour. It's better that we get these regular outlets to hate on when we've have a bad day than the drama that happens when people here take it out on each other.

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