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So, spamming in a thread can be annoying. Jamie and Greg are hard at work writing bug fixes and working on developing new features of the site (as they are most days) and we've got one thing that could help cut down on spam and be really easy to implement.

Posting speed limits. After you post in a thread, you would have to wait a certain amount of time before posting in that thread again. We're thinking one or two minutes. This won't effect the ability to edit your own posts.

But before we make that kind of a change, we want to hear your opinions on the idea.

I get it.
no spam/trolls
or else

well, yea. only thing is, if its a quick reply, u gotta wait
god idea tho, +1 DO IT

Excellent idea, Chris. I say you guys should go for it. Though, I'm wondering if it will still be the case even after someone posted a reply after the one you made.

EDIT: inb4 Emerelds

Hell yeah, I'm 100% in favor of that kind of thing !
I'm also wondering if a system of a private message sent to an admin when someone tries too much to spam something can exist.

Oh Santa, this isn't all for you. This is for the benefit of everybody.

i know its the or else part im worried about,
i was also thinking Warning bans Banned for a few days repeatedly warned then banned permanently

@Jostin,
From the sounds of it, yes, you will still have to wait one minute before posting, so others might reply before you.

@tomberry,

Right now, you can send private messages to any user. If you go to my profile and click "contact user" I'll get a message in my inbox, but it won't show up on my wall. If anybody has any issues, I encourage you to send me a message.

We're also working on a Karma system, so users can deal out positive or negative feedback to other users based on their posts. When the Karma gets HORRIBLY low, it's a community-voted auto-ban.

immore in favor of a "time out" option where the user is temporarily suspended

@Santa,

wut?

@Griff,

I'm not in favor of having to give time-outs.

lol ok then +1 your idea :D

I'm actually against this.
I mean,I just posted on a thread.
To give my opinion on this right after,it would take a while and be kinda annoying.

it depends on the rules of this option

Chris, Ok, but I'm not really in favor of delation, even anonymously.
I was thinking about an automatic warning or something like that.

But yeah, there will be the karma so, we just have to wait for it.

+1
It will fix duplicate posts, such as this.

@ RG

Of course.

lulz

I'm not in favor of an auto-ban. But a review by the site's admins/mods would be okay.
The karma system, in particular, depends entirely on its execution. For example, if you allow the privilege to all users, the trolls will be able to make multiple accounts to give a user negative karma until that user gets auto-banned.
I propose the karma system gets limited to Researchers, mods, and admins. This would add raid protection, troll defense, and still would not impede on the new user's ability to add a meme entry, post to the discussions board, or edit their posts.
After a certain user get a certain amount of negative karma, they are reviewed by the site mods/admins. If they actually deserved the negative karma, they'll get the ban, but if the negative karma was undeserved, it gets reset to its previous value. This adds protection against the quarreling that often arises between users.

As for the flood filter, I say go for it. It'll help cut down on the number of useless posts we get while not impeding a user's ability to participate in organized discussion.

@Shadowfury
+1 Agreed.
Anyone else?

tl;dr