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when do you think we could set a user limitaion on submitting memes, like you have to be a jr. researcher to submit memes,
it would realy help reduce the deadpool and submissions sections
like this deadpooled entry;
DAYNA
and im in a bucket bitch
and fucking magical penis duck

Well, I think it shouldn't be your status(member, researcher, etc.). I think you should have to wait 48 hours to submit a meme or something along those lines.

Or you could be strict like some sites and put a 2 week limit on it.

i perfer status that way there is a good chance u have a better understanding of what a meme actually is.

Magically, this thread in another thread.

https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/1-general/topics/464-just-an-idea

Presto!

No, not like that, but you should put a limit to the number of submissions per week based on the number of contributions and your member status.

well IMO something really needs to be done and this would improve the KYM site

Jamie, Brad, and I are going to have a conference call this afternoon to discuss our upcoming forums improvements. Ideas we'll be discussing include adding Awards for users who provide useful information such as origins, and easy user karma ratings for building reputation.

We've discussed prohibiting users beneath a certain number of contributions in the past but came to the decision that we didn't want to set up too many barriers that would prohibit newcomers from creating threads. Believe it or not, but there have been some valuable meme entries started by brand new users. Not being able to submit an entry would drive people away.

To be honest, we don't have as much of an issue with people creating multiple entries as much as we have an issue with spamming in the forums. One idea we've discussed before was setting up a system that automatically detect when a user is spamming the forums. I think you can agree that's a higher priority issue at this time.

@Chris:
Flood detector?

Also, I don't know about you, but I'm really wary when it comes to auto-detect spam-prevention systems. They break, blocking useful posts a lot of the time. It's failed in nearly every board it's been implemented in.

Instead, active and competent moderators. It's low tech, sure, but at least then you wouldn't have to worry about the technical issues associated with bots/filters. And as a bonus, they could relieve some of the stresses being put on the admins.

There are 8 active admins currently. I can assure you that the issue is that the admin tools are very basic and need to be developed further.