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News and Announcements / Re: Board restrictions to new members
« on: February 03, 2016, 08:58:36 am »
I think this system of making people have 20 posts to get access to special boards is a poor way to manage the community. Yes, I understand that the logic behind it was that only contributing members of the community would be able to make it to such a post count and get access to the boards, but I think there is a flaw in this logic.
Let's say you are a new member and you don't really care about EvilZone(leech). How will you reach those 20 posts to get access to the ebooks board? You will make low quality posts. Now, they may not be low quality enough to warrant deletion, but in 9/10 cases it will be some stupid shitty non-contribution to the discussion that is just barely good enough to not get deleted--probably just a hair above the incredibly low standards that already exist. Rinse, repeat, do that 20 times on whatever thread you can manage to slip a post in, and voila! You have your 20 posts and now have access to the ebooks.
This mindset clearly needs to be eradicated, and there are two trivial ways to fix this method. One way is to make the process of joining the forum more rigorous. Doesn't have to be some intense Cicada 3301 shit, but just something more, maybe something like Insanity mentioned, where you hash the registration code or have a two-step registration process. Another way to fix it is to increase the strictness of the moderation. By raising the bar it would hence make it harder for floaters to come in and do the bare minimum. I think the heavier moderation idea sounds shitty as it requires more effort and more forum nazism, which ruins the fun for everyone, but I also think that the former option isn't powerful enough on it's own.
By having a mixture, where there is a more rigorous application process and a stronger community initiative to make sure that only competent individuals complete registration and that the forums aren't filled with shit posts whose only purpose serves to increase post count, the quality of EvilZone would improve as a whole. I don't see it as requiring much effort; simply have a step-up of difficulty in registration and implement a simple method to eradicate nonsense on the forums and in IRC--like actually banning people that break rules that threaten to ban people that break them(like helping other users register).
So yeah. I am writing this late at night so this is probably shit and I will probably regret this as i recognize that I am not some ultra notorious member of EvilZone, but who cares, take from it what you will. Too many people are complaining that there is an issue, but I don't see a ton of solutions being offered, so here's one at least.
Good luck fuckers.
Let's say you are a new member and you don't really care about EvilZone(leech). How will you reach those 20 posts to get access to the ebooks board? You will make low quality posts. Now, they may not be low quality enough to warrant deletion, but in 9/10 cases it will be some stupid shitty non-contribution to the discussion that is just barely good enough to not get deleted--probably just a hair above the incredibly low standards that already exist. Rinse, repeat, do that 20 times on whatever thread you can manage to slip a post in, and voila! You have your 20 posts and now have access to the ebooks.
This mindset clearly needs to be eradicated, and there are two trivial ways to fix this method. One way is to make the process of joining the forum more rigorous. Doesn't have to be some intense Cicada 3301 shit, but just something more, maybe something like Insanity mentioned, where you hash the registration code or have a two-step registration process. Another way to fix it is to increase the strictness of the moderation. By raising the bar it would hence make it harder for floaters to come in and do the bare minimum. I think the heavier moderation idea sounds shitty as it requires more effort and more forum nazism, which ruins the fun for everyone, but I also think that the former option isn't powerful enough on it's own.
By having a mixture, where there is a more rigorous application process and a stronger community initiative to make sure that only competent individuals complete registration and that the forums aren't filled with shit posts whose only purpose serves to increase post count, the quality of EvilZone would improve as a whole. I don't see it as requiring much effort; simply have a step-up of difficulty in registration and implement a simple method to eradicate nonsense on the forums and in IRC--like actually banning people that break rules that threaten to ban people that break them(like helping other users register).
So yeah. I am writing this late at night so this is probably shit and I will probably regret this as i recognize that I am not some ultra notorious member of EvilZone, but who cares, take from it what you will. Too many people are complaining that there is an issue, but I don't see a ton of solutions being offered, so here's one at least.
Good luck fuckers.
(I won't charge, just offering free help from a native speaker) 
