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<p>[QUOTE="Merc Crazy, post: 1237152, member: 27417"]It's more about letting someone get acclimated to the climate and type of culture that exists on the forum more-so than gagging them. Perhaps make it two threads in the first 50, then. One to introduce, and one that goes over the details of whatever they happen to be interested in. It's not about limiting expression or the spread of ideas, or even being elitist, it's about preserving the culture of the forum and getting the newbies to understand that CT isn't just a resource, it's a community.</p><p><br /></p><p>Desert, you really aren't using all of the vbulletin tools available to you if you don't understand how easy it is to simply install a minor mod that allows you to prevent new users from posting more than x amount of threads until any particular condition is reached. On other forums I've moderated in the past, such policies were in place, and they ended up working out great for the forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think, given the size of CT, anyway, there should probably be at least one or two more very active moderators anyway, the forum is a bit undermoderated, imho.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Merc Crazy, post: 1237152, member: 27417"]It's more about letting someone get acclimated to the climate and type of culture that exists on the forum more-so than gagging them. Perhaps make it two threads in the first 50, then. One to introduce, and one that goes over the details of whatever they happen to be interested in. It's not about limiting expression or the spread of ideas, or even being elitist, it's about preserving the culture of the forum and getting the newbies to understand that CT isn't just a resource, it's a community. Desert, you really aren't using all of the vbulletin tools available to you if you don't understand how easy it is to simply install a minor mod that allows you to prevent new users from posting more than x amount of threads until any particular condition is reached. On other forums I've moderated in the past, such policies were in place, and they ended up working out great for the forum. I think, given the size of CT, anyway, there should probably be at least one or two more very active moderators anyway, the forum is a bit undermoderated, imho.[/QUOTE]
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