Can we have newbie jail back, please?

[michaeladair]

I like this idea... Right now we have new accounts being made just so these scammers can bump\support their scam posts. Bringing back the noobie jail will help with this epidemic.

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[Minnlo]

I support bring the newbie jail back as well. It will annoy genuine new bitcoiner users a bit, but I believe it will bring more goods than bads to the whole forum.

[dserrano5]

On some other foruming sites, I didn't bother making an account since I'd have to post ~50 times or however specified before I could access a lot of the subforums.

The difference here is access. There are some forums in which the information is kept private so you can't even read it unless you sign up (and others are even worse by showing only partial OP contents so they show up on web searches but nothing else). I don't bother signing up in those either, go to hell with your draconian rules, however bitcointalk is public and browseable without having an account. Then if you want to chime in, it's ok to have to jump a couple of hoops.

[caga]

That sol adoni,247news, 247poker guy is making several new accounts per day and spamming the forums. Please, do something about this.

Can't his IP be banned from creating new accounts?
 Would be much easier than figuring out which accounts belong to him, and banning then one by one.

[hilariousandco]

Futile banning IPs as persistent people will just use tor or proxies if they wern't already. It's very unlikely he was just using one IP or his 'home' connection anyway and if he was it probably has been added to the blacklist already.

[BadBear]

That sol adoni,247news, 247poker guy is making several new accounts per day and spamming the forums. Please, do something about this.

Can't his IP be banned from creating new accounts?
 Would be much easier than figuring out which accounts belong to him, and banning then one by one.

Most of his accounts were nuked, which does include an IP ban.  He also created quite a few accounts when he first showed up, just banned a couple from June/July. IP bans don't affect already existing accounts.
Now he uses Tor. He's a plague on many forums, not just this one.   

[5000Bitcoins]

I really agree.. have requirements to browse the forum a X amount of time before being able to post. This forum could really need this, I've seen a substantial increase in newbie troll or bump accounts as of lately. They are inevitable but a thing like this would decrease the amount of them, and contribute to better content here.

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Another account by him https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=882034.0

[AnonBitCoiner]

On some other foruming sites, I didn't bother making an account since I'd have to post ~50 times or however specified before I could access a lot of the subforums.

The difference here is access. There are some forums in which the information is kept private so you can't even read it unless you sign up (and others are even worse by showing only partial OP contents so they show up on web searches but nothing else). I don't bother signing up in those either, go to hell with your draconian rules, however bitcointalk is public and browseable without having an account. Then if you want to chime in, it's ok to have to jump a couple of hoops.

Mm. That seems reasonable; I guess it'd just be a matter of determining the difficulty of such hoops

[michaeladair]

Another account by him https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=882034.0

Can you make a poll on this, I believe it will get more attention with a nice ol fashioned poll...

[Hippie Tech]

Would anyone like to necro my, "Should newbs and Jr. members be barred from creating ALT ANN threads ?", thread/poll ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=627917.0

[redsn0w]

Would anyone like to necro my, "Should newbs and Jr. members be barred from creating ALT ANN threads ?", thread/poll ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=627917.0

Oh thanks for reminding me , I've voted.  Maybe we will see these changes in the new forum software.

[michaeladair]

Would anyone like to necro my, "Should newbs and Jr. members be barred from creating ALT ANN threads ?", thread/poll ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=627917.0

I necro'd it for you... let's stop this madness.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Another thread of another newbie posting spam

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=882166.0

[Malin Keshar]

Another thread of another newbie posting spam

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=882166.0

I think he is trolling, not spamming,

But the newbie jail would also keep trolls at bay, so it is indifferent.

[Joca97]

it would be good if newbie jail would be until
he moves to jr.member then no spaming would be made!

[iVory1]

Imo the Beginners & Help board would just become a cesspool and legit newcomers might be thrown away.

[hilariousandco]

With that logic the cesspool would them just be spread everywhere else. It wasn't that bad when we had the newbie jail and at least all the newbie questions were contained and quarantined in there then.

[robmob]

That sol adoni,247news, 247poker guy is making several new accounts per day and spamming the forums. Please, do something about this.

I support this. The quality of this forum is deteriorating from Newbies making spam posts for sigs/selling their accounts.

I agree it is starting to be a pain in the ass.

[meowball]

How about functionality or module to report someone with a drop-down or radio button of a list of common reasons (like spam, inappropriate behavior, etc)? If someone has been reported many times, the staff is able to research and give a temporary or permanent IP/email ban. The reports can not be seen publicly, and the number of reports decays over time. If people want to create new accounts with new emails/different ip address, then that's what they want to do. If new members are restricted to a section of the forums, that can get really frustrating and deter those who want to actually contribute and be part of the community. I do like the # of posts/time idea, but if that's going to be done, might as well do that for everyone.