This place is going to the dogs again.

[thenumberthirteen]

Not sure if anybody else has noticed, but there has been another influx of new users posting misspelled, insubstantial, contentious and repeated threads.

At the risk of sounding like a grouchy old person, shouldn't the admins/mods impose some kind of rule for new users?Achieving a certain post-count [80 would provide ample experience, I think] before being granted the privilege to start threads?
Of course, there are exceptions, but I'm sure they would understand.

I'm aware that my threads aren't exactly full of flowering prose or concise points, but nevertheless, it's sad to see the standards of this nice community being lowered like this.

Opinions?

The bad threads will, hopefully, get locked, and they'll learn. Perhaps it's due to the fact that peo'le really want to get their post count up. I've been on this forum since 2007, and have fewer than 500 posts, whereas some users have 1000+ after a month or so. I'm not aiming that comment at you btw. To be honest I started a thread to see if I could get one of those 1000 views badges, however I'm most proud of my "regular" badge .
To get back on point they'll grow out of it.

 

[pirateninj4]

I agree with this post. However, all we can do is just try to be nice and learn them on grammar.

 

[stone0042]

I would completely agree, I'm at nearly (or maybe over, haven't checked) your recommendation and am still yet to post a thread of my own,

 

[chronobreak]

Because the very people you propose to penalize by making them earn their chops when we didn't have to ARE part of "our" community. It IS elitist. It is YOUR opinion of a "better" Escapist. Ignoring something is a form of transcending something, which, by definition, is more enlightened that coming up with crappy new rules that go against the flow of this site in the first place.

We can discuss and suggest things until we're blue in the face, but at the end of the day, we're talking about new users who aren't hurting anyone or anything and who's greatest crime is that the offend YOUR sense of what this site is supposed to be.

"When some new user is being harrassed for nothing at all by a bunch of snobby forum elitists, I'll be there."

I'm not talking about penalizing anybody, especially new users. Unless of course you think them taking a quiz about the rules we are all expected to know would be punishing them. It isn't elitist, and it isn't just "my" opinion. The sentiment has been mirrored all over this thread and the forum as a whole. So don't try to play it off like it's only me, pal. If the majority of our community would see fit to have such a system in place, I'm damn sure it would be considered, because without a community, you don't have much of a forum, do ya? Also, I would recommend reading the whole thread to find out exactly how bad posts and threads hinder our site, such as bumping good topics down the line and such.

Give me one person in here who is suggesting harrassing new users, or have even done it. Nobody is trying to harrass anyone, just simply make our forums the best they can be.

And, when I first came here, the "flow" of the site was good grammar and ettiquite, and relevant and interesting discussions. THAT is The Escapist most of us know and love, and the reason most of us have stuck around so long.

MODS: PLEASE do not lock this topic, delete the spam posts but please let us have our discussion, which has been very civil so far.