Time to revisit post requirements? - Page 2

paimon.soror · 2011-07-29 16:01:07

Technical solutions for people problems is not the way to go.

08-05-2011, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by TeamRX8

Time to ban people who bring this subject up again. Srsly!

I own a 2011 Civic Si and need a part. I can't access the FS area until after posting 50 posts or some such BS. Never mind that I collectively have several hundred thousand total posts on various forums. For a determined scammer making 50 BS posts is no big deal. For a normal person who ogherwise has no iterest in participating it is too much hassle and not worth the effort. This is what PayPal and common sense is for. You can't legislate stupidity and retardation.

Edit:lol, Dan must be my spiritual twin

That point is understood, which is why a few posts down I mentioned that it would be a nice feature to have at least a section where the new people can post regardless of their post count, this could also be the case for the for-sale threads.

My only argument comes from the standpoint of the application and network processing of things, which I apologize, but my profession has made these types of thoughts almost second nature.

Encouraging people to set up ignore lists, as well as not regulating threads that are senseless posts by new users is not only taxing on the server as the complexity of SQL queries increases, but also taxing on the storage space available. I am sure that the hosting admin can agree, that this forum is probably not cheap, and as the demands for more storage increase, it will only get more expensive.

The forum already lacks in proper memory management, which can not only be seen through the sluggish performance as of late, but also at the collapse of various "archived" threads.

i.e. https://www.rx8club.com/sitemap/t-184207.html

So let me reiterate ... my entire argument is not due to frustrations caused by senseless posts, and it's not due to wanting to "legislate stupidity". I am merely trying to look out for the better of the forum here.

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