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A question about new profile restrictions

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CinnamonToastGrunge

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10 posts to show I'm legit—ok cool that makes sense but how do I do that without being spammy about it?

Day 1: posting because I have to

Day 2: posting because I have to

I don't want to dilute/annoy the real posts and conversations with obligatory participation.
 
You really do not have anything useful to say to any of the thousands of threads here?
You just need to post 10 nonsense posts to enable the ability to send pms while having the ability to talk to dozens of thousands of people in the forum already?
 
omniscientfluffer said:
It would take months to reach 100.
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That's the point, the ones that are only here to use the site as a messenger or to harass women would not stick around if they had to put in some actual effort to unlock the PM system.
omniscientfluffer said:
That would also be a problem for people who do post publicly and have friends they chat with here privately.
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Anyone that doesn't meet the requirements and wants to chat with friends can take it to a messenger app.

omniscientfluffer said:
It might encourage multiple accounts.
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I ban dozens and dozens of them every single day so no change there.
 
I often welcome new people in the introductions thread and participate in the fun and games thead - they're two good ways of increasing your posts
 
I don’t think you have to see it as spamming, necessarily as long as you don’t make it solely about reaching that goal. If you’re only concerned about the goal, then you can do what a lot of people do and go to the introductions and just welcome in new people. Some people just put a simple “welcome” and move on. I’m not particularly a huge fan of that as it feels very soulless. Just spend a few moments reading someone’s introduction and welcome them to the forum maybe mentioning something from their intro. Then, not only are you working towards your goal, but you are also helping new people feel like this is a community worth being a part of.

I too kind of feel like it should be a higher minimum or maybe even age of the account before someone can private message. I get countless messages from people who spammed out 10 quick messages just so that they can be annoying to women in private messages.
 
omniscientfluffer said:
A combination with reputation score might be the most reasonable. Can't forget how the this affects people who come onto the site occasionally and only make quality posts, most of them with multiple paragraphs. It would take months to reach 100.


That would also be a problem for people who do post publicly and have friends they chat with here privately. That might encourage multiple accounts.
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I was able to reach 100 relatively quickly and most all of my messages that I was doing then was at least full paragraphs. I would say even now, 90% of my messages on here are full paragraphs and I’m almost at 1000 posts being here for six months.
 
Fun and games count? There are dozens of threads there that just seem to exist for post churning. count to whatever... masturbating now? Etc..... plenty it new people rattle off hundreds of posts their first few days...
 
omniscientfluffer said:
You posted 25 times yesterday. I said it's a problem for people who "comes onto the site occasionally" but instead I should have said doesn't spend that much time here.

I was looking at your profile because I want to stalk you. Shit, I meant because you have a feminine name. Dammit it's because I was curious why I haven't seen you around before. I don't go to general chat normally. Did you just fall... Nevermind.
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That’s fair. Sometimes I do spend a good few hours just browsing on here. So maybe it wouldn’t be good to gatekeep private messaging too hard. But I still feel like 10 posts is very little especially when someone can just post “hello” 10 times.


Sir… and or madam…? ? I took a bit of a break on here for the last couple months due to some health stuff. But I’m back for the most part. Trying to get back into discussions and being a member of the community.
 
Why can’t people just be dirty minded or curious as hell, yet decent in behaviour?

Being rather new here, I was happy to become a tourist quite soon. I had not realised I couldn’t PM before and I am not sure if I have sent a dozen PM since I could, most of them to the guy who pointed me to Zooville. But I understand why the restriction is needed and makes sense and would support stricter conditions.

I often check the profiles and posting of those who have posted something in a thread or whose username triggers my attention and most certainly of those who send me a PM (not just in this forum). I find it suspicious, when I see that members only made rather few posts and the first dozen are just saying “welcome” to the introduction of other new members, while they haven’t bothered introducing themselves. I understand the criteria cannot be quality driven, but needs to remain quantity based to be reasonably applicable. Yet I would suggest that beyond a fixed number of post, they should introduce themselves in their profile and indicate their location. I know that the location part may be seen critical, but at least the country should be indicated.
 
Mare Lover 1975 said:
And increasing your reaction score *cough I'm not a cheater cough* ?
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I vote the mods have to go through an accounts previous messages after 2 weeks and make a decision on if that person should be able to private message people or not. Mare Lover can take the next 100 new accounts, pez can take the 100 after that, floofynewfie, oldman, etc.
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