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Carmilla · Joined: 13 Jul 08 Posts: 70 Location: Brooklyn, NY

Truth is, I hate guns; if I DID shoot one, I'd be more likely to hit EVERY bystander than my target; and I haven't lived in TX since 1979.

But some people do put one in mind of the infamous legal defense: Needed Killin'. Mad

Wildfire2099 · Joined: 20 Aug 07 Posts: 122

I think having to play a game first is a great solution... Maybe a couple of the old hands here could volunteer to be 'helpers' so that if someone tries to post, it gives them a message to contact a 'helper' or something, that way we won't have a newbie forum cluttered with spam.

Either that, or maybe you can only have, say 3 more posts than games played... 3 posts should be enough for any newbie to get their point across, right?

Knave · Joined: 28 Jun 08 Posts: 258

Wildfire2099 · Joined: 20 Aug 07 Posts: 122

Heh, Stargate's played a zillion games, he's no problem.

I checked it out, and there are only 5 current players (at least, through the top couple hundred posters) who have more posts than games:

--The two Mods (who can obviously make themselves exceptions)

-- Kanga and Gladitus (due to the tourney stuff.. they'd clearly either need an exception, or maybe they could be mods for their games of choice)

-- Knave (who, we all can agree seems a pretty unique fellow)

If making indivual exceptions doesn't work techincally, maybe it can just apply until you've played 10 games or something.

smlait · Joined: 16 Jul 06 Posts: 392 Location: alberta, canada

What if someone just has to *join* a game to be able to post? That would stop the spambots but not genuine newbies from posting. Of course, it wouldn't stop a spambot who wanted to stop in and play a few games of Amun Re or Wallenstein first... Very Happy

Carmilla · Joined: 13 Jul 08 Posts: 70 Location: Brooklyn, NY

Really, do we HAVE SPAM from anyone who's completed a game? I think we're making it too complicated.

The only problem is, it's the newbies who often have questions. Maybe a limit of 1 or 2 until you've joined a game, 3 or 4 until you've completed one -- and then you're on moderation. So if you DO need to post, you have a way to do so, it just may take a bit of time.

Once you've completed a game, I don't see the need for limitation unless there's a case of abuse, in which case banning should take care of it, I would think.

stargate · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject:

freduk · Joined: 18 Jan 06 Posts: 433 Location: Bristol, UK

daveszum · Joined: 28 Oct 07 Posts: 219 Location: CST

I know this isn't going to be popular with non-contributors, but what if posts were limited to only those who contributed? It should be easy to set up and adds a little incentive to be a bit more invested in the community Twisted Evil

Kanga · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

Simple is the key here.. The simplest option is no posts unless you've joined a game. The sheer quantity of spam recently makes this necessary, even at the very small theoretical risk of blocking a genuine new player.

Early_10 · Joined: 14 Mar 06 Posts: 270

Kanga · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject:

a new player who has joined a game would be free to post in forum. Unless that leads the spam bots to start joining games as well... ugh that's a bad thought.

Wildfire2099 · Joined: 20 Aug 07 Posts: 122

There's no way a spammer would go through that much effort.. most of them are automated.

I really think something should be done, it's getting kinda riduculous these last couple weeks.