See title.
Add a restriction preventing new players from starting threads until some amount of time has passed. A day, a week, a month, whatever.
and/or
Add a cooldown to starting threads, so you cannot post several at one time. Lasts half hour, an hour, or whatever
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Jackard
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Potjeh
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Sever
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Re: Restrict thread creation based on join date
This might actually be a great idea, for everywhere except How Do I? and maybe Dwarves and Thieves. Neophytic threads about drama, trades and uninformed suggestions are typically irrelevant and/or embarrassing.
Come back two hours earlier.
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Avu
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Re: Restrict thread creation
Agreed if possible.
"Since all men count themselves righteous, and since
no righteous man raises his hand against the innocent,
a man need only strike another to make him evil."
no righteous man raises his hand against the innocent,
a man need only strike another to make him evil."
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Jackard
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Re: Restrict thread creation based on join date
Maybe they'd start using search.Potjeh wrote:It shouldn't apply to How Do I.
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Wolfang
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Re: Restrict thread creation
Just a cooldown, a cooldown for registered players up to a month. No cooldown for the rest.
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Potjeh
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Re: Restrict thread creation based on join date
More likely they'd start spamming existing threads with irrelevant questions.Jackard wrote:Maybe they'd start using search.Potjeh wrote:It shouldn't apply to How Do I.
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Jackard
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Re: Restrict thread creation
The cooldown is for everyone, new players are not the only ones spamming threads.Wolfang wrote:Just a cooldown, a cooldown for registered players up to a month. No cooldown for the rest.
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
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Potjeh
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Re: Restrict thread creation
Post throttle would be like tidiness removal for the forums, I wouldn't stand a chance of ever catching up with Sabinati 
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Jackard
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Re: Restrict thread creation
This is for threads, not posts.
