Originally posted by: Shimraa
hey jay just thought of an awesome way you could reduce the amount of stupid and spaming posts on the forum. what you can do is to build in a limit for the number of times a person can post in an hour or a day or something like that. forums are not really chat lines and since you have the IRC set up you can boast the number of people there and reduce the number of stupid pointless posts in the forum. but it couldnt be too big, you could probably do something like 5 - 10 posts/ hr or like 15 posts a day or something like that or something along those lines. and you could disable it for certain members i.e. mods. just a thought, i dont knwo how hard it would be to implement at this point or how much work but it would cut the amount of rediculas traffic in half. and you would get people spending more time and more effort on each one of there posts creating a higher quality and smarter forum.
hey jay just thought of an awesome way you could reduce the amount of stupid and spaming posts on the forum. what you can do is to build in a limit for the number of times a person can post in an hour or a day or something like that. forums are not really chat lines and since you have the IRC set up you can boast the number of people there and reduce the number of stupid pointless posts in the forum. but it couldnt be too big, you could probably do something like 5 - 10 posts/ hr or like 15 posts a day or something like that or something along those lines. and you could disable it for certain members i.e. mods. just a thought, i dont knwo how hard it would be to implement at this point or how much work but it would cut the amount of rediculas traffic in half. and you would get people spending more time and more effort on each one of there posts creating a higher quality and smarter forum.
Not gonna happen.
You guys should move to China. I think you'd be happier with the freedom of information exchange they offer their netizens.