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Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« on: January 25, 2009, 05:50:35 PM »
What do you think?
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2009, 06:00:56 PM »
100% nos :)

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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 06:23:25 PM »
definitely yes.
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2009, 06:30:31 PM »
As much as I want to say no and believe that people should be able to make their own choices, I'm going to have to go with yes. It's just not safe. Even if something bad hasn't happened yet, it certainly could.

However, I don't feel that their post count should have to be very high for them to see the general and life boards.
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2009, 06:35:03 PM »
Quote from: Qwerty on January 25, 2009, 06:30:31 PM
As much as I want to say know and believe that people should be able to make their own choices, I'm going to have to go with yes. It's just not safe. Even if something bad hasn't happened yet, it certainly could.

However, I don't feel that their post count should have to be very high for them to see the general and life boards.

i totally agree with you on that one
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2009, 06:43:16 PM »
What kind of information exactly is this limit intended to prevent people from seeing?  Just curious, because the only thing I can think of are pictures.  :)

Either way, I don't think it's necessary.
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2009, 11:09:15 PM »
People post alot of IRL info about themselves in the life board.
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2009, 11:29:17 PM »
Hmm.. I don't really have a problem, so its a no from me.
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2009, 11:43:06 PM »
i think as long as we don't make the post count something ridiculously high (i'm thinking 20 or 30), i don't see why not.
all the lurkers/noobs won't see the thread, anybody that actually cares about the forum will.

don't make a big announcement about 'you need this many posts to view the thread', that'll just encourage spamming.
just let it remain hidden until they reach that point.

i'd feel safer.
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2009, 03:05:02 AM »
I don't really care. I think the best thing is to repeat to the younger members to not say to many things about themselves... Maybe tell them went they post a presentation thread.
To read the Life and General boards, you needa register. I think you even needa register to see there are Life and General boards! So no-member won't know anything... and usually people don't register to forum just to have informations about the members.
Now, you can't truth everybody here. Everybody can lie about his/her age, his/her life, everything about him/herself, on Internet! Some members can be pedophiles or Yeerks or... you just don't know!
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2009, 10:11:20 AM »
Yea I think it would be cool to have a small post count limit, just so random people cant sign up just to lurk.

But I agree with dameg, people definately have to be careful with what kind of personal information they put on the site. I know this is home and we all feel safe here, but its still the internet. So putting up the post req on those boards will reduce the risk, but not eliminate it.
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2009, 04:05:44 PM »
No, there shouldn't be a limit. When I first joined, the main thing that kept me around was the Life board; if that hadn't been there, I probably would've moved on.

I feel like a limit would just discourage new members from staying; how are they supposed to feel accepted if they're locked out of the two most social boards on the forum?
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2009, 04:10:06 PM »
I def see your point tyler, we can discourage new members, but I think that would depend on how large the limit is, I'd say 10 posts would be good, just so the people with 0 posts arent able to go everywhere, and if they are animorphs fans im sure they'll make 10 posts before getting bored and leaving lol
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2009, 04:48:10 PM »
What I don't understand is why we are treating the post count like it's an age. Annna and Morfowt are both gods, and they're like 12-15 years old.
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Re: Limit N00bs from viewing Life & General Boards?
« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2009, 04:54:41 PM »
Quote from: Tyler on January 26, 2009, 04:05:44 PM
No, there shouldn't be a limit. When I first joined, the main thing that kept me around was the Life board; if that hadn't been there, I probably would've moved on.

I feel like a limit would just discourage new members from staying; how are they supposed to feel accepted if they're locked out of the two most social boards on the forum?

still think a minimal post count would be nice.
if you like animorphs, i'm pretty sure that 10 posts wouldn't be too much of a challenge to obtain.
i mean, you need 10 to read the books, don't you? people post for that reason alone.
as for the second part, we're not going to put up a big sign saying 'only high-posting members can view this thread', we could just make it a nice surprise when they've posted enough times (and have become an actual member).

i don't think we should be posting anything that's too personal for this forum, but i think we deserve some privacy from lurkers etc.
just my 2¢ 8)

edit:
i noticed in the member list, there were only about 3 pages of users with 0< posts <10 and 8 pages of users with 0 posts.
that's a lot of lurkers :P
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