A Newly Created account should be modified with the following protocols,
1.) A newly created account cannot start a new topic for the first 30 Days or so. Let them browse through the forum, understand everything and get a good touch of it & decide if they want to continue here as per the Rules & Regulations, else simply EXIT.
2.) Newly created accounts cannot post more than 2 Times per day for the first 30 days. In short they can only post 2 times every day. I said it 2 post per day because, they will get 14 Activity per 14 days (if they stay active on the forum for 7 days at-least, which indirectly means that they will make 2 post per day).
3.) A newly created account cannot post a Link anywhere on the forum during these 30 days restriction period. A minimum of 28 Activity is must for every member to even have the authority to post a link.
Alright, so i have divided your post into three parts, so that i can comment on your statements in a detailed manner, please find them below;
I highly doubt theymos would impose more restrictions on real users. Many new users go to this forum to ask for help with something related to Bitcoin (be it wallets, transactions or lost keys). Those users should not be forced to wait 30 days before they can create a new topic.
Why can't they wait for 30 days period, is that too high? I don't think so.
This is where we define the term
"Hit & Run users".
So are you one of the supporters of "Hit & Run users".
I mean, are you really supporting such users, who will just use the forum for their very own Benefit / Needs or just when they need something (
some help) from us and then leave the forum?
I believe that the user should be here forever like a Friend or a Family to interact here, instead of just getting the help they need and runaway and never come back here.
If that's the case then, everyone simply create a new account every-time you need any help, ask for help and then vanish, this way we will start to loose good users and even our existing users may stop to bother the Topics where they can actually help out.
I have seen many good users in this forum who help others with detailed post and they expect nothing back in return (
not even a Merit because some of them are Legendary members too).
Would that look good if the Newly Registered users will ask for help, someone will take your valuable time to respond back and that New User will simply vanish from the forum without even responding back or so?
I know people who help others are not expecting anything in return, but responding back to the helper would make him feel good, that his comment helped the user.
Just look at me too, i myself do the Selling at BitcoinTalk MarketPlace, however on the same side i even interact on the some Topics and post some comments where-ever i find something where i can post something as per my knowledge.
I am mostly active on the India sub-forum, as i am an India, so section that attracts me more.
Even in this Topic itself, where we are discussing now, i would have simply read it and ignored it, right? Did i?
That's called participation and contribution, you should have a look at the amount of registered members in this forum and count the users who have comment on this Topic, the math would be clear by then.
I have posted here 3 times in this Topic itself, as stated below,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg45866562#msg45866562https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.msg45841104#msg45841104If i also start to think in a way like, i will just do the selling over here in the MarketPlace and will vanish when i'm done with it, then i would actually feel ashamed as well as guilty of myself, that i didn't contribute anything to a platform from where i earned some money.
Moreover i am also planning to do some contribution in terms of Donation to this forum at a later stage, because i really loved the way this forum is maintained by the Staff. It's really cool.
Even worse: what you suggest only hurts real users, while it doesn't matter for spammers at all! A spammer can easily create thousands of accounts, wait 30 days, and start spamming. In fact, many of the new spambots I've seen use older accounts already.
I can't find anything on that suggestion that could hurt any real users, real users shouldn't have a problem with it.
Moreover, i said it clearly on my suggestions post itself, that it
may decrease the spammer to some extent, i never said this is going to do something extra-ordinary over here.
There are more than 10 ways, you could have never imagined, for a spammer to bypass anything (
any security mechanism or protocol) that we include here.
But, what we suggest is something closest that can give some positive Impact / Effect.
It's never a 100% result to every Suggestion or an Idea.
People who dream of 100% result on forums are the one's who always fail.
Always think to get the maximum positive impact than to dream of a 100% result or output with everything you do.
In-fact my favourite
Google also can't do a 100% fight against Spammers..
(
Jokes apart)
PS
Your
first post was a new topic including links
With your suggestions, that wouldn't have been possible.
My suggestion says, 30 Days wait period and 28 Activity. It never says the Newly Registered users cannot start a post ever in their lifetime. I would have indeed waited for 30 Days and made 2 post per day or so to gain the Activity, come-on.
Also, i was never so much desperate to get the Sales done on Day 1 itself. I am still selling it today, that Topic was started on
June 2018 and today we are on
October 2018, did anything changed with time?
This is what i say, there is a difference between
Good Users and
Scammers/Spammers.
When your a Genuine Person, you don't need to worry about anything else.
During the time when i got myself registered here, my suggestions never existed, hence it's baseless to drag an old post to this conversation and comment on that. This is for the future and not for the past.
Off-course if i was still a a
Newbie on 2nd October 2018, then this comment would have made some sense, but as of now it doesn't.
You can see that i travelled all the way from the Member Rank of
Brand New to
Jr. Member to
Member with
34 Merits within a time-frame of
4 Months.
If i can do that, why can't others?
I am not god or something extra-ordinary over here, right?
Even i am a normal human being like you guys are.
Also, if i continue this way, the day won't be far away when i will be a
Legendary Member like you too.
(
I know that's called over confidence and too much to say as of now, i'm just kidding)
May-be you could read my suggestions once again and see how it fits here.
To conclude, that was just a suggestion & nothing personal to any member.
I have clearly stated it that it may or may not be Good / Possible. I knew some people may not agree with it, that's why i have attached a
NOTE at the bottom of my post.
See it goes this way, it's easy to say negative about a suggestion posted by a member by simply finding loop holes in it, but it's quite difficult to give back a Valuable / Positive suggestion, if we ask for it.
Well, if you have a better idea or suggestion to counter it, then everyone else over here would love to hear that, so why not take a chance?
So i hereby ask you, do you have a better suggestion than what i have posted here, i would really appreciate it?
NOTE:Last but not the least, if my above post of Suggestions looks like a trash to everyone, then i would highly recommend a Staff to Delete it right-away. It's quite simple, why to unnecessarily drag the conversation over here if that post means useless to everyone.
Thank you everyone for reading this. Have a great day ahead.
