Anti-repeat thread idea

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Originally Posted by iceageg

Personally I don' mind the "You must post XX times before you can create a new thread" idea. It ensures that the person has had a chance to see what is already in the forums and is at least temporarily engaged with the community. Just another means to the same end. I don't want to silence them, just reduce the number of useless new threads.

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This would just encourage people to post nonsense until they reached whatever post limit was set.

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Originally Posted by Tronixton

what if we locked posting until they scroll down to the bottom of the ruled out ideas sticky?

us trainees can still post, and it might reduce drivel!
they will at least have to skim the ruled out ideas.

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Haha only if you don't tell them that that's the requirement. Otherwise they'll just scroll and be done

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Originally Posted by Tiler

Haha only if you don't tell them that that's the requirement. Otherwise they'll just scroll and be done

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that was my intention actually.

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Originally Posted by THNSUM

I know... I was just poking you......lol

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look, no one wants to become a historian of this thread to post a new idea. the idea is evidently not present in the game and is "new" to person posting it, so they put it up as a suggestion. if you are already familiar with this idea or even thought of it yourself, feel free to skip right over it. but no one is going to comb through all this garbage to make sure no one ever suggested their idea before. that seems unreasonable.

just sticky the good stuff to the front or sort by rank/popularity. if your idea is really so great and worthy, it won't get lost in the dung heap.

but don't censor people or discourage new ideas. that would be wrong.

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Originally Posted by Tronixton

that was my intention actually.

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Heh. Now that would be funny.

Even better would be a shadow ban if they didn't do it.

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Originally Posted by LordDoofius

look, no one wants to become a historian of this thread to post a new idea. the idea is evidently not present in the game and is "new" to person posting it, so they put it up as a suggestion. if you are already familiar with this idea or even thought of it yourself, feel free to skip right over it. but no one is going to comb through all this garbage to make sure no one ever suggested their idea before. that seems unreasonable.

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First, it's people like you that create all of this "garbage" in the first place. Second, you don't have to comb through it as the pile of garbage is so high that a simple search (or reading the first page of posts) will reveal it.

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Originally Posted by LordDoofius

just sticky the good stuff to the front or sort by rank/popularity. if your idea is really so great and worthy, it won't get lost in the dung heap.

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They did that actually. Did you read it? Probably not.

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Originally Posted by LordDoofius

but don't censor people or discourage new ideas. that would be wrong.

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No one said anything about discouraging new ideas. It's the constant reposts of old ideas we want to discourage.

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Originally Posted by dahimi

This would just encourage people to post nonsense until they reached whatever post limit was set.

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True..... That leaves us with a minimum time before they can start a new thread.... Or maybe create a sub formum for new members to post in and restrict posting to that sub forum for the first week. Then they can post repeated ideals to thier hearts content... Just don't index it to the " new post " search . They would be able to read the forums, search for solutions etc... But not start new threads or post on the main boards.

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Originally Posted by LordDoofius

look, no one wants to become a historian of this thread to post a new idea. the idea is evidently not present in the game and is "new" to person posting it, so they put it up as a suggestion. if you are already familiar with this idea or even thought of it yourself, feel free to skip right over it. but no one is going to comb through all this garbage to make sure no one ever suggested their idea before. that seems unreasonable.

just sticky the good stuff to the front or sort by rank/popularity. if your idea is really so great and worthy, it won't get lost in the dung heap.

but don't censor people or discourage new ideas. that would be wrong.

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Okay, so you have either a bunch of pages full of stickies and new ideas are started on page 43, OR you have an enormous sticky full of ideas that no one has the time to read. Is that what you want? Every actual new idea to be stickied? The front page has the most recently discussed ideas on it, which will be discussed until they're no longer posted on enough to stay on the front page...or that's how it would work if there weren't multiple threads asking for the same thing every 20 minutes.

I'm not asking to silence these people. If it's so important that they get their repeat ideas heard, they can bump an older thread with the same idea on it

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Originally Posted by LordDoofius

. . .but don't . . . discourage new ideas. that would be wrong.

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No. If the new idea is bad discouraging it is the right thing to do. Encouraging bad ideas will always produce a bad result. Sure you might make the person with the bad idea feel good for a few posts but one of two things will happen.

1) The bad idea gets implemented because everybody lied and said it was good. Now everybody wishes they had been truthful.
2) The person who did feel all warm and fuzzy because they were encouraged realized everybody was jerking their chain and the idea really is bad.

Both of these are bad outcomes. It is wrong discourage good new ideas. It is right to discourage bad new ideas.

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Originally Posted by LordDoofius

look, no one wants to become a historian of this thread to post a new idea. the idea is evidently not present in the game and is "new" to person posting it, so they put it up as a suggestion. if you are already familiar with this idea or even thought of it yourself, feel free to skip right over it. but no one is going to comb through all this garbage to make sure no one ever suggested their idea before. that seems unreasonable.

just sticky the good stuff to the front or sort by rank/popularity. if your idea is really so great and worthy, it won't get lost in the dung heap.

but don't censor people or discourage new ideas. that would be wrong.

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The way the boards work now, all those so called new ideas almost fill the first page, so you have to go to page two or three to find a thread worth opening... We had the same issue with loot threads, so they had to start dumping them into a single stickied thread just to clear the board of them....