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I highly doubt theymos would impose more restrictions on real users. Many new users go to this forum to ask for help with something related to Bitcoin (be it wallets, transactions or lost keys). Those users should not be forced to wait 30 days before they can create a new topic.
Why can't they wait for 30 days period, is that too high? I don't think so.This is where we define the term "Hit & Run users".
So are you one of the supporters of "Hit & Run users".
I mean, are you really supporting such users, who will just use the forum for their very own Benefit / Needs or just when they need something (some help) from us and then leave the forum?
I've made accounts on several (specialized) forums in the past. Some I still use, some I registered only to solve a specific problem, and I even once registered somewhere just to thank someone for the large amount of information he posted.
If I would have to wait 30 days before I can ask a question, I wouldn't have used any of those forums. But like I said, those users aren't the problem, and some of them come back again after a while.
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I believe that the user should be here forever like a Friend or a Family to interact here
Lol. This is Bitcointalk, and it stands for personal freedom. It's not a contract with the devil which captures your soul for eternity.If I want to leave this forum today, nobody is going to stop me.
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Even worse: what you suggest only hurts real users, while it doesn't matter for spammers at all! A spammer can easily create thousands of accounts, wait 30 days, and start spamming. In fact, many of the new spambots I've seen use older accounts already.
I can't find anything on that suggestion that could hurt any real users, real users shouldn't have a problem with it.If that's not possible within 30 days, this forum dies. This is what theymos posted about it:
Limiting newbie participation is very harmful for a community. Newbie jail will never return: I consider the newbie-jail period to have been extremely damaging to the forum. When barriers to participation are too high, then the best people often just won't go to the trouble of joining, and the people who are willing to jump through the hoops are often people who aren't good for the community: people with nothing better to do, scammers, get-rick-quickers, etc. Having a permanent newbie jail policy would improve things a lot in the short-term, but would end up being a fatal poison to the community.
The low signal-to-noise is a real issue which seriously annoys me and is often on my mind. But as you mention, fixing it non-destructively is difficult.
The low signal-to-noise is a real issue which seriously annoys me and is often on my mind. But as you mention, fixing it non-destructively is difficult.
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Your first post was a new topic including links
With your suggestions, that wouldn't have been possible.
My suggestion says, 30 Days wait period and 28 Activity. It never says the Newly Registered users cannot start a post ever in their lifetime. I would have indeed waited for 30 Days and made 2 post per day or so to gain the Activity, come-on.Your first post was a new topic including links
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You can see that i travelled all the way from the Member Rank of Brand New to Jr. Member to Member with 34 Merits within a time-frame of 4 Months.
I saw that indeed. But I wouldn't consider this post to be worth 30 Merits. For reference, I've never received more than 11 Merits at once, in a total of 569 transactions.Quote
Thank you everyone for reading this. Have a great day ahead.
A few comments to (IMO) improve your forum participation:1. There's no need to send me a PM after receiving Merit. I merited your post, that's it.
2. You type very long stories, which makes it slow to read.
3. You're overdoing bold font.
Do with this advice what you want
