1. Discourage new users as all public forums allow you to post something from the start, even if it's only in a single section.
2. Give the staff a lot of additional work as a lot of these reports by newbies would be useless. You can't expect someone who just made an account to start accurately reporting others. Encourage newbies to spam reports to get it over with and be able to start posting. If you report 100 posts some of them will be accurate, so why bother to even read them?
3. If someone would get banned for report spamming it's not a big deal since the account was new.
Make high level accounts worth even more and trading flourish.
1. It is discourage a little to join in, but it is encourage them to read rules and all the thread that already here first then start asking around cluelessly. And this is just my suggestion feel free to add something or do something about it, like you can add a section if it's really needed to quick ask or something, just like I said before..
Well it's temporary solution so the forum get cleaned up first and when the posts starting better and better, then just open some thread that giving them chance to tell their own opinion about why they should ranked or have a right to post. Of course with 3 out of 5 mods approval. Which that post is automatically move to junk each day and force them to write again if there is no replies. Or using invite token that has been given to legendary or high ranks.. Then the legendary will also responsible to who he/she giving it..
So there is a lot of way to make this forum as public and yet it is in control.
2. Now why not put some limit on those report that he/she can do each hours or days? And if it not "us"(we all at the forum) helping the stuff/mods then who else supposed to be helping them reporting them? Useless or not can be fixed by using rules like permanent bans on false/useless reports. (It's basically a same system as "ranks" that quoting the post time and ranks needed by activity to see/open some sections of the forum). Only just they can't junking anymore.. Only reporting and if they report useless then get bans.. and if they already in ranks and post junks then they got demoted..
3. Hell.. With this kind of system those who has high ranks will think twice if they want to junk around..
Like I said, it's demoting them.. Not banning them right away. And as for the market price of the ID in this forum going high rockets? Why bother? The main problem right now isn't "them" selling their ID's.. But "them" that spamming/junking the forum to gain "ranks" faster.
Again it's just a suggestion of mine.. If you has another solution let's hear it :3.
EDITED: wrong codes XD~