Quote from: iasenko on August 21, 2018, 09:03:38 PM

Quote from: bitart on August 21, 2018, 08:48:59 PM

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I often think about creating one megathread in the off topic section for those who only want to gain activity, e.g.: post here to increase you post count and not to bother the other users on the main boards...

In that case they would have a topic where they can spam and the forum would be free (or nearly free) of spam...

Just image that this thread gets deleted.. hundredths of accounts will be back to newbie for just a second. It's a good strategy to discourage the shitposters after mounts of posting and waiting the activity to increase. In the high-tech era we are lining now everything is robotized so are the account farmers, so to troll them it's not easy as the bots don't really care if they gonna be busted, they just start all over again with a new strategy.

Well, that was the hidden dirty trick in my idea

Every spammer would just had their spam posts deleted after a while, but no other members would suffer for deleting that one big spam megathread...

I know that nowdays everything is robotized, and bots don't really care about the whole thing...

But to be more serious:
What if we restrict the posting to 1 post per day until the newbies get 1 merit at least?
That won't restrict them too much, they can ask for help, they can open a topic if they need, but we will have less spam (they can't join to a sig.campaign where there's a 20 post minimum per week)
The same would apply for jr.members too...
I know that account farmers would just start to create more accounts, but it would be more easy to spot them too...