New user posting ban

[evan210]

I've noticed than a lot of new users go into the forums as soon as they sign up and make their 4 threads within an hour or so, and they usually end up getting locked/deleted because they're incompetent and don't seem to know how to post correctly.
Before someone's allowed to use the forums after signing up, they should need to take some sort of test about the rules and stay banned until they seem to have some idea of how to post.

Discuss.

[therealanimator]

i have noticed that..they never understand the rules those fuckin kids..sigh in my day we respected the rules.

[Headshot777]

That would probably make the forums less attractive and drive all the new users away.

I agree let's do it.

[SCUD14]

At 9/8/09 05:28 PM, evan210 wrote:

Discuss.

That's fucking idiotic. How are you meant to learn how to post if you're not allowed?

[dec-1310]

I think that's done in the clockcrew site, tho...
Still, yeah, you are right, but most of the users are alts other than noobs

[STEM]

Most people who do that are gimmick alts, at least those are the only ones I remember since they make up over half of my ban list

[Ptcfast]

At 9/8/09 05:30 PM, SCUD14 wrote:

At 9/8/09 05:28 PM, evan210 wrote:

Discuss.

That's fucking idiotic. How are you meant to learn how to post if you're not allowed?

They know how to post, just not properly.

[evan210]

At 9/8/09 05:30 PM, SCUD14 wrote:

At 9/8/09 05:28 PM, evan210 wrote:

Discuss.

That's fucking idiotic. How are you meant to learn how to post if you're not allowed?

By reading the rules.

[joabos]

That would be a Dick Move and you know it. Making people go through whole tests just to see if they can do a thread? Let them learn with time, or at least make the "Read This Before Posting" named "Rules" and make the icon bigger.

[Tramps]

It's called tough love. They make shitty posts/topics and they get locked/deleted and flamed by other users. They either flee at that point because they're total morons, continue trolling, or gradually get better. It's the way its always been.

[ninjaman9000]

Those wacky kids.

[evan210]

At 9/8/09 05:31 PM, joabos wrote: That would be a Dick Move and you know it. Making people go through whole tests just to see if they can do a thread? Let them learn with time, or at least make the "Read This Before Posting" named "Rules" and make the icon bigger.

They're both in plain sight.
In fact, when you first sign up you have to check a box asking if you've read the rules. It's extremely easy to click the checkbox without reading any of it.

[BananaBreadMuffin]

There are a shit-ton of forums all over the internet, they wouldn't wait around to be unbanned here if we did that.

[Grub-Xer0]

At 9/8/09 05:29 PM, therealanimator wrote: i have noticed that..they never understand the rules those fuckin kids..sigh in my day we respected the rules.

What are you talking about in your day? Back in '87 I respected the rules.

[Pokemonpoeguygcn]

At 9/8/09 05:28 PM, evan210 wrote: Before someone's allowed to use the forums after signing up, they should need to take some sort of test about the rules and stay banned until they seem to have some idea of how to post.

Good idea
Now let's see if Tom will make this happen

[JollySpace]

I just started posting tons of threads.

[evan210]

At 9/8/09 05:33 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: There are a shit-ton of forums all over the internet, they wouldn't wait around to be unbanned here if we did that.

I'm not talking about making the mods unban them. If there was some variable saying they could post or not that would only be changed to let them post if they showed they understood the rules.

[Timmy]

I feel like your idea would hurt NG more than help it, since most of the new sign-ups are spur of the moment decisions anyway. New users who are attracted by the BBS are likely people who want to reply to a topic or want to make a new thread of their own, so they create an account on the spot.

If there was a waiting period, or some long process to go through to sign up, I feel like most people would just say, "screw it" and abandon the prospect of posting on the BBS, likely abandoning Newgrounds as a whole as well.

As long as the mod is descriptive in the 'Reason for Ban' portion of the new user's ban, the user should get the hint pretty quickly.

[TehSlapHappy]

Shit's serious.

[Greenfrost6]

I think the better idea is to immediately link the new users to the forum rules when they click the 'Forums' button for the first time. This will save a lot of idiotic 'HI I'M NEW' posts, and so on.

[joabos]

At 9/8/09 05:33 PM, evan210 wrote:
They're both in plain sight.
In fact, when you first sign up you have to check a box asking if you've read the rules. It's extremely easy to click the checkbox without reading any of it.

They still learn with time or go away in three days.

[Kwing]

Maybe they could limit peoples' posts based on a variable, like Experience Points or something. Experience might be a crappy thing to judge, but still... There should be a post limit per day for new users.