I can agree with The Pharmacist's pessimistic ghost, there are two types of newbies here (basically):
- those who care about the rules and they will study it and will try their best not to break them
- the spammers who won't care about the whole thing, despite of it will be put next to the more menu, will flash red and blue or will stay for 30 seconds at login...
For the first type, it will help a bit, for the rest, it won't... ever... but unfortunately they are the majority now, so I'm not sure if it worths the effort to develop this for those few newbies who are not here to spam...
I don't think I agree with you on this. In as much that some people end up breaking the rules of this forum does not make all of them spammers. Majority are just ignorant of the fact that some activities are not tolerated on this forum and I think this additional option will be of great help to a lot of people here.
Well, maybe we can agree, because those who are breaking the rules accidentally, but not all the time, those are still type 1 and those newbies will rank up as the time goes by, those members are not spammers and hopefully won't be in the future as well...
But those who are breaking the rules all the time and don't care about anything but the ban, those won't become anything but spammers and the problem is that they are the majority now...