great idea... would love to see this happen

 

I agree lets do it.

 

I think doing this will keep people who aren't used to forums away initially. For example, I've joined SRT Forums and I'm not a noob or anything to cars but I don't know much about the SRT-4s. First of all, I made a welcome thread welcoming myself to the forum. Why should I make 10 posts just to say Hi to everyone?

Also, alot of times, searching tools aren't that great...I know I've tried a couple times and it just doesn't work that well.

As well as not every question can be answered by searching or situations change with time, what might be available or work might not in the future. There are too many circumstances where the good ol' "search now" option isn't that great. Some people are just purely new to forums and don't know that there is a search feature.

Overall, a forum has to take the good with the bad. So you get spammers? Thats what moderators are for, they have the magical delete option. If they have their eyes open, they will see it and dispose of it promptly. As far as noob posts, not being rude but get over it. Not everyone knows everything about a car or engine, they are going to ask questions and I know myself, I'd rather have my question answered per my situation. A forum no matter what you try to do will be repeatative, it comes with the territory. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be any new posts going on...it'd be boring except for the off topic area. Also, new posts inspire more questions and more insight on topics.

Take the good with the bad. Doing this will hurt more than help.

 

I don't want this to take effect just to down on newbs because they don't know anything, but maybe it would encourage them to get equated with the site before starting new threads.

 

Yes, but what about the threads for new members to introduce themselves? How will they do that?

It is a bad idea.

 

exactly my thoughts.

 

What about requiring new members to create a thread in a specific place for new members? and that being their post requirment.

 

Yeah, looked at your post after I typed mine

 

That would still enable spammers to create a thread in that section. The idea is to eliminate spammers ultimately.

 

That's the thing that people are missing. You will never be able to stop a spammer.

They can make 10 wasteful posts and then create a thread just like anyone else. Did that stop anything? Nope. So why even stress over it...it's going to happen. It's like worrying about you getting into an accident before you get into your car. If it happends, it happends.

 

I think this is more of a newb thing not a spammer thing, like some one already said (too lazy to see who) the mods will deal with the spamers. I think new rules are better than people getting pissed (believe it or not it happens) when some one makes their first post on "whats the best intake for my cobalt?".

 

Funny... most of the posts I've seen made by spammers are just a single post starting a new thread... I doubt they'd take the time to make 10 posts in some other thread before starting their own... as this would actually require effort on their part.

It's just a program that goes onto any vBulletin board and creates a new thread automaticly.

Mods? How about some of your input on this?

 

Understand but they'll figure out a way to bypass it so it doesn't matter what you do, they will find a way.

If the moderators are around and people just take a second to click "report thread", it can get handled in a short period of time.

It will do more harm than help. It's not that big of a deal...it's just initially annoying.