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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: Duckman on January 06, 2013, 12:30 pm

Title: Cut down on spam
Post by: Duckman on January 06, 2013, 12:30 pm
Make it so that once you post a message you cant post another one for 5 minutes.

That should at least slow down the virwex.com adverts.
Title: Re: Cut down on spam
Post by: SandStorm on January 06, 2013, 04:48 pm
My idea was to make an approval process for newbies where two full members approve the newbie so that he/she becomes an approved newbie. And I suggested the newbie had to have at least 5 posts to get approved. And you had to become an approved newbie to start new threads.

But someone pointed out to me that this will inhibit new customers from sharing their experience with the community. It should be easy for honest new people to get their account approved, but a higher number of starting posts will make it harder to make spamming accounts. So if we put the minimum from 5 down to 1 and when the un-approved newbie click on "start new thread" they souled get the message that say that they have to get their account approved first. And a good way to go about that is to post their first post in "Introduce Yourself! (For all new to Silk Road and existing members)" (on off-topic).

It should also be easy to spot an unapproved account (maybe pink instead of yellow boxes under profile name), so they will be quickly approved. The human factor in this approach will make it so much harder to create a lot of spam accounts.

I have a suggestion for a newbie section also. If we call it "scamming vendors and sites" where everyone can start a thread about scammers. If someone spams their scamming site there they will kind of doing us a favor.