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| Thnks fr th vnm Demolition Lover  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 15766 | Cigarettes And Suicide: I think it'd be a great idea, but as Ruby said, there's no real way to enforce it. In the most common threads, couldn't we just get the most common opinions added in the first post, so people won't have to shuffle through 50+ pages to see what's been said/what hasn't...like I belive the homosexuality thread has something like that. Listneing to numerous people say the same thing over and over is pretty much like the rule stating you cannot just quote someone and not add anything to it, or it's considered spam. I don't know if I'm saying this right =\ bloodredruby69:But I think most people sign up on INO to talk about My Chemical Romance and other bands. I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't like it if they had to make 200 posts elsewhere before posting there. I say they have to answer questions or something about the rules before they're allowed to post. *Shrugs* I've had to do something like that to get into VF cults. |
| Oxycontin Genocide. Banned  Age: 30 Gender: Male Posts: 2955 | bloodredruby69: Just because you're a noob doesn't make any less mature or if they understand the rules or not. Some people over 200 posts probably still don't even know the rules. It's not a question of how many posts you make, it's a question of who's reading the rules or not. Maybe you should make them read the rules when making an account.. |
| druscilla. Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 37 Gender: Female Posts: 1671 | ^ If they get flagged enough they could be banned from this particular forum until __ posts later. -shrug- When I joined Mibba I went straight to the News section and didn't pull any of the stuff "bad" n00bs do. |
| Fezzik Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2748 | ^Same, with here. Well, hopefully. No one ever told me I'd broken a rule or spammed, at least. But I do agree with Ruby, hypocritical though it may be. Maybe only to 100 posts, but at least some limit. That way people wouldn't wander in here thinking it's the place to "discuss" whatever they want. Also it would at least stop trollers from posting / making threads on at least this board. I dunno, I think a lot of noobs sort of jump the gun and just post random thoughts on these threads because they think that's what they're supposed to do. If they were taken right to the noob board, they could read the rules, get all the "how to I make my sig???" questions out of the way, meet some people, get used to things, and then start actually having discussions. There would be exceptions; people who would be able to post properly on here straight off and people who would spam even with the required number of posts, but I do think it would help with the majority. |
| sparklinggrey Jazz Hands  Age: 34 Gender: Male Posts: 327 | We need a "not-serious topics" forum |
| Thnks fr th vnm Demolition Lover Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 15766 | sparklinggrey:Like the INO Chamber? |
| dont stop. Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 4290 | bloodredruby69:I remember when I first came that I stayed in the INO chamber. But after about 100 posts I started coming to the Discussion Board. I don't think that the number of posts that you have makes you a certain way. Sometimes, the noobs don't get the rhythm of the threads, that things aren't about 'lol' or 'lmfao' all the time. I'm glad, though, that there is the WAYT thread. It's a place where you can be random and go off the topic a little bit. It's also a place where you can talk to your friends, get more posts, and share things with everyone on the thread. Having 6 posts doesn't make you stupid, and having 30,000 posts doesn't necessarily make you smart. |
| Ad Astra Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 3546 | Much agreed with you two the niumber of posts has nothing to do with how smart you are |
| Fezzik Salute You in Your Grave Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2748 | But number of posts generally correlates with how much you know about INO (no, not all the time, but I think we can all agree that someone with 30,000 posts probably knows more than someone with 3). Restricting posting until people have been on INO for a while wouldn't be meant to keep "stupid" people out of the Discussion Board, it'd be meant to keep people who don't know the rules or what this board is meant for out. |
| What the Frank!? Motor Baby  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 927 | well i think the number of posts doesnt really matter. i'm pretty new to the site, not the music |
| Fezzik Salute You in Your Grave Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2748 | ^But this board isn't about the music. |
| Cigarettes And Suicide Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 38 Gender: Female Posts: 1725 | ^^ What? Oh, I keep forgetting this board has anything at all to do with MCR... I stick solely to the Discussion Board, PQ forum and sometimes venture into the INO Chamber to give some advice on things like body piercings... /spam But yeah, I do agree that more posts generally equals better knowledge of the board and its workings. A lot of n00bs don't seem to comprehend that the DB is a place for serious, somewhat intellectual discussion, rather than 'Omg I ttly think gay marriagi is for fags!! Geddit?! Hahahahaahahahaha' That kind of thing... Perhaps some kind of restriction based on rankings/post numbers would help keep the DB a bit cleaner because the kids who don't get it, can't post until they do, and the ones who do get it early on, will still be able to post when they've beefed up their post count a little. |
| Guy Ripley Killjoy  Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 29 | Thankyou |
| Emmy101.5 Killjoy Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 2 | this is a good reminder and its perfect & a good suggestion! |
| dont stop. Salute You in Your Grave Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 4290 | Fezzik:I did say that, though. I said that if you're new you don't understand how it works, but that doesn't necessarily make you stupid. |
| Fezzik Salute You in Your Grave Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2748 | ^Of course being new doesn't make you stupid. It just means you don't know that much about INO. And the purpose of only allowing people with a certain number of posts on the Discussion Board is to keep people who don't know that much about INO and don't know what's going on or what's being talked about from disrupting the flow of conversation. |
| Simple and Clean Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 2616 | With some people, it's not so much knowing nothing about INO, it's knowing nothing about the disscussion board. If their used to the INO chamber, and don't read the DB rules, then when they come here, they won't know some things acceptable there aren't acceptable here. |
| Fezzik Salute You in Your Grave Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2748 | ^Yeah, but if they use the INO Chamber, they'll know that the Discussion Board isn't the place to talk about MCR / non-serious topics. Plus it would probably help with chatspeak; it's allowed in the INO Chamber but most people don't like it and will call new users out on it. |
| dearsami Demolition Lover  Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 17129 | What if there's a thread in the discussion board that we think should be deleted.. what do we do? If it's not a serious discussion, & it hasn't been deleted yet. Even though it should be. Do we like PM a moderator or somethingg? |
| Fezzik Salute You in Your Grave Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2748 | ^Go to the first post of the thread and hit the report button next to "Quote" and "Link". Then fill in the box with why you think the thread should be locked (duplicate, spammy, not serious enough for the board) and a mod will check it out and decide. |
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