Quote from: aigeezer on May 26, 2013, 11:18:06 PM

Quote from: WuLabsWuTecH on May 26, 2013, 10:19:50 PM

So I'm an Enginner in real life, so you have to look at it from a problem perspective.

The problems you are trying to solve are (correct me if I am wrong):

1) Newbies who post worthless crap on the other subforums because they haven't taken the time to read
2) People who sign up to just spam and troll

So solutions are:
1) Some people simply don't have that much to say. At a certain limit, (say maybe 1 hour of reading?), allow newbies to take a short quiz. No more than 20 questions that tests their knowledge on bitcoins and forum policies. If they pass, they get early parole, if they fail, current restrictions apply (no retakes). This allows those people who may already have been bitcoining for some time or people who have legitimately read the announcements to get on with their life here. People like these will want to contribute to the community and aren't going to be your "What is a wallet?" guys.

2) For the first few hours, posts by newbies are moderated everywhere but the newbie forum. If they are of decent quality, they are released from newbie jail. If they are not, all pending posts are deleted and they must follow current policies. To cut down on moderator work, they are only allowed to have 4 pending posts at any one time, and if one of them is spammy/trolly, then all pending posts are deleted and they are subjected back to newbie jail (or banned, we don't want spammers and trolls around here anyways right?)

And I'm already out of jail but if you want to donate some btc my way, PM me and I'll be more than happy to give you an address

I wish that post had come from a newbie.

In that vein, I think another reason for the 5-post count is to gently change the newbie mindset:

from something like "I've got to make five stupid posts when all I want to do is make a really important post as soon as I'm out of this stupid prison. What a dumb place this is that I really really want to join. They're obviously a bunch of idiots and I demand my right to join them right now or I'll hold my breath and turn blue..."

to something like "I can't think of anything useful to say right now, so I'll go and do some reading and when I have something interesting to say I'll say it and perhaps if readers find my post interesting we'll engage in conversation about it and I'll learn some stuff and... hey, I just noticed I've got more than five posts already so I'd better start to think seriously about how I can contribute to the other discussions that I'll be getting access to."

The present system isn't foolproof but it's better than many fora have. Lotta noise on the Interwebz.

My problem with the newbie restriction was that I had already been doing bitcoin related stuff for years when I joined the forum about a month or two ago. It was stupid for me to have to post 5 times and for four hours with useless crap so I could post the one questions I came here to post. But since I had knowledge of my aspect of bitcoining, I felt those questions I shuld have been able to post to the correct forums. As you can see, I still post in this forum even though I am not a newbie anymore for questions for areas I am new to. I have been mining for years, but I'm relatively new to trading for example).

The problem is that not all of us on this forum are adults (or at least act like adults) and can self triage their posts to the right subforum.