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Originally Posted by Big Dreamer  One hundred smiley faces comes around really quickly for some. There are members operating at 25 posts/day that have contributed very little actual text, and they would get the governor removed after 4 days. Too bad there wasn't a word count function that could accumulate text strings.
It wouldn't be bulletproof , but it might help a little bit. |
I'm not sure where you sit on this, Big Dreamer.
What you say is obvious, and is a disadvantage of a mere numerical criterion.
On the other hand, if you say 'two weeks,' a lot of people might register on, say, July 3rd, spend no more than, say, 26 minutes on the site in the next two weeks ... know nothing about the site, really ... and then be free to start threads.
Maybe the word count notion is good ... except some arsehat could be cutting and pasting stuff from
Wikipedia and passing the set count in 13 minutes.
I don't know how to tackle this problem.