my proposed 30 Day Waiting Period
 

After seeing a recent glut of threads for cell phones, gym shoes, sex sites, etc as well as the usual drive by one post spamming of crappy bands, movies, artwork and other non-talented ilk that screams "mommy didn't give me enough attention as a child", I propose that all newbs are confined to the 'Introduce Yourself' forum for a 30 day period to either become an active member in the community or take their crap elsewhere.

Doesn't matter what results your poll has- the only one with admin powers who could initiate such a plan has absolutely no interest in the goings on of the forum.

Forum is inactive enough with adding rules like this.

Yeah but quality is better than quantity.

Must say that the spammers don't really distress me that much. As long as they get treated with the respect they deserve... :D

As if in silent protest to this thread or something...12 new "members" have joined HDC after this thread was posted!!

Also, 35 new "members" have joined up within the past 4 days.

The Average for Active Members has shot up from 278 on 25th September, to 333 a few moments ago.

How many real? How many spam-bots? Clones? Ghosts? Where do they come from? And where do they go after registering?

You tell me.


http://www.horror.com/forum/memberli...&sort=joindate


This is weird. And really uncanny.

its not a big deal ... they make a post or 2 - provide angry people a punching bag for a day or so - then they are deleted and banned - probably by Z.

i really dont think there's enough of it to be an issue.


plus : this place NEEDS fresh meat - if i had to wait 30 days i'd lose intrests and post elsewhere - last thing this place needs is to discourage potential good posters from joining.


it's prety dead in here at times.

Very true.

Sure, out of all these people that are joining, most are either spamming or just disappearing. But occasionally a good new member comes along and it would be a real shame to miss out on these members.

I am sure a lot of people, if they were told that they would have to wait 30 days to post, would just move along to the next forum. Mostly that would be a good thing :D but occasionally it would be a real shame.

We just had a potentially cool member make her first post at the end of this thread:

http://www.horror.com/forum/showthre...=35254&page=10

yeah.......I don't think we should discourage new members. 30 days seems like an awful long time. For every 5 or 6 Leland Malinski's we get one or two Chronogrl's.

The spammers are fun. It has been years since we had anyone truly offensive join, and a couple of annoying retards arent that big a deal. Ignore them, or pick on them.

Besides, the way this place has changed in the last damn near 5 years :eek: even if we had the offensive ones again, it would just turn into playtime. :)