There are still spammers with more than ten merits
No. You did not read OP carefully. I meant total received merits for threads, not posters.
Surely a much easier and less complicated solution is to just report the low quality threads to be locked or trashed? Why allow the board to continue to be cluttered by poor quality, spammy, advertising, etc., threads?
Report bad posts and have a child board for higher quality threads are different.
It is also next to impossible to get even senior members who start threads in any board to go back and lock the thread once the discussion has run its course and the thread has turned in to a spamfest. I suspect you will have very limited success encouraging users who are predominantly newbies to go back and move their thread to a new board, particularly a new child board which will get less traffic and less views than the main board.
Whenever you have good attitude, you will do this. Not all of users do this but some will do. Especially if you think it can help newbies better. In my opinion, it help not only for newbies but also for the whole community, including staffs. Good threads have higher odds to be moderate by good OPs, not all but the odds is higher.
Many good threads and guides in B&H do not even receive up to the "twenty qualifying merits". I don't think this child board is needed tbh, what's the purpose of moving a thread to a child board if for example it takes about a week to get twenty merits, it would already have been seen by almost everyone on the main board, and moving it will serve no purpose imo.
The main idea is has a child board for up-class quality threads and it does not matter to move your threads after 2-4 weeks. Do you pay attention on your threads to see it satisfies needs of newbies in that main board, and receive merits. I think you do care about that. Even I don't beg for merits, I always feel happy if my posts or threads receive merits because it is kinda recognition for my works.
Just as o_e_l_e_o has said, reporting low quality posts to the moderators is still the best, it will be deleted and the good/average threads/guides remain in the main section.
As of writing, the
Beginners & Help has 54828 Topics, in total. It's the point. The forum has operated more than ten years, and it might keep operate for many years, then total topics in Beginners & Help will expand more. I don't have stats on this but have you ever imagine how many threads in Beginners & Help have received 20+ merits? I guess the percent is not too high.
The threshold at 20+ merits is chosen arbitrarily so if someone can give stats on this issue, it will be cool.
- Total received merits: 20+ (the threshold can be considered, 10+ or 30+ but I think 20+ is enough)
Edited: DdmrDdmr gave us Statistic that discloses only
0.42% of threads in Beginners & Help have received 20+ merits.
Generally, I know theymos does not want to add more boards or child boards.