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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Lamentations of a newbie [ Activity increase spam and shit post]
by
tranthidung
on 03/07/2021, 15:54:10 UTC
The activity period however promotes spamming at beginner level because of the need to rank up. I humbly suggest that the activity system should be reviewed, instead of counting the number of post per activity period it should be the amount of time invested in the forum.
Brand new to newbie members can not spam because they are limited and theymos does not want to have more newbie jail.
  • Brandnew - newbie: 6 minutes between 2 consecutive posts, from post #1 to post #15
  • After having 15 posts, and it is counted to activity point (15 activity), the waiting time will be reduced to 1.5 minutes.
Code:
waittime = 360;
if(activity >= 15)
        waittime = (int)(90 - activity);
if(activity >= 60)
        waittime=(int)(34.7586 - (0.0793103 * activity));
if(activity >= 100)
        waittime = max((int)(14-(activity/50)), 4);

One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.