Suggestion Limit amount of posts new members can make

I'm sure I'm not the only person here that thinks this, but wouldn't it be a good idea to limit the amount of posts that new members can make in a day, surely it would cut down on the amount of useless pointless posts and spam that seems to be creeping up on us again.
just check here https://forums.digitalpoint.com/forums/movies-music-tv.97/
one user made 28 pointless posts in 38 minutes, none of them any good and just done to cynically boost their post count for whatever reason.
I know the general chat and it's sub-forums is usually made up of spam and crap but that's just beyond a joke, surely limit them to a max of 5 posts every 24 hours until they have a minimum amount of likes would help stop the spam.

Just a thought..

 

A bit like this guy? Or maybe a bit different - while I might think his posts are junk, someone else might find them useful, insightful (or inciteful for that matter), etc. I guess he just needs an education in the difference between spam and SEO.

If you can believe it, it could have been worse - s/he/it could have started 28 threads about "what is love", "Coke or Pepsi", "1 or 0", "male or female", "what time is it", "how to tie shoelaces" or whatever. But yeah, maybe a breather between posts - such as five minutes - might deter them. Might.

 

Yeah pretty much, when someone is making posts at the rate of 1 a minute you know they are going to be pointless crap.

Again yes, something like that would surely help, would make the mod's job a bit easier i would think.
I'm all for free speech and all that but sometimes you just need to tell some people when to stop

 

I understand the gist of the thread and the frustrations but......this would be a slippery slope that DP would go on if it were to institute this. How much is too much and when would this caveat be lifted?
DP is essentially a very free site and not too repressive, most want to keep it that way. Which is why whenever anything new is brought forward there are howls of protest, as if the world were coming to an end. Can you imagine the amount of complaint threads if DP were to bring this posting rule in?
Newbies want to fit in, and posting a lot is how some of them attempt to get known. In the meantime we are free to report anything we deem to be spam.

 

It would be interesting to see xen foro admin to see what settings are available.

ruddy morons posting nonsense they should be limited to 4 posts in the first hour or something

sorry I rant there a little maybe, but sometimes that's the way it feels, but of course at the same time we can earn trophy points disavowing erm sorry reporting them and it's such a hard thing to call as we don't know what settings there are or what settings would best suit...

 

You've just given us a brilliant argument as to why we ought to leave things just as they are.

 

I would recommend (choose one of them):

1. Limiting their post to 2 each ten minutes. They can post anything from low/high post.
2. No post/time limitation if their post has 25/30 words.
3. Limit the ability to post each 3 minutes and it has to be 20+ words.

It wouldn't stop low quality post/spam but it maybe could make DP better. But I know, more rules will make more member screaming.
I love to write in DP but I couldn't write as much as the old days (in term of quality posts). Some low quality posts are annoying.

 

I know it will never be implemented, that's not what i expect to come out of this thread i just felt something needed to be said.
It's mainly aimed at the type of users that sign up and immediately make a ton of worthless one line posts every 30 seconds or so, and the main problem with the report system (which i use pretty much constantly) is the 30 second wait time between making reports, i don't think i have enough time left on the planet to report them all..lol
I don't mind newbies trying to fit in and get known, but who want's to be known as a worthless spammer?

 

Such as this?

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And one has to admit that many of them are good at it!

 

haha...now if only that could popup on their screen once they've made their 5th three word post

 

Here is what I do. I suggest that the mod look at the offending member's latest posts to find other bad posts, or I do my own multi-reply and just complain about multiple posts in a single report.

 

Yes, i also do that but more often than not only the post i report gets dealt with and the rest gets ignored.

 

Another approch RE & additonal to that is to report posts with a few words to suggest other posts need looking at to. (oops quoted wrong person hehe)

We could try threatening offenders with a carefully worded threat that isn't a threat >

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some bad girl is being a very bad girl right now LOL​

 

Hope the Admin will notice some of your sugestions.. Reducing spam on this way would be cool, but this spamming is mostly in ''General Chat'' and whole section is crap so you can't make it much better..
Spam has been reduced in the most important section ''BST'' so Admin done a good job five months ago..

 

I won't hold my breath on that one.

 

I think that General chat should be cleaned from spammers as well, because it is the only section where anyone can post anything and where no knowledge is required - that's why there is so much threads about the meaning of life and similar nonsense. I'd leave "The Underground" for people who don't have 3 likes yet; most of its topics are the same crap anyway).

 

Never mind trying to hold your breath. Trying pulling up your pants instead!

 

Good point, then that stuff doesn't get indexed (reduces the "thin content" on DigitalPoint visible to GoogleBot), so it's a win-win situation.

 

28 posts in 30 minute that can't be right, that person has way too much time