Set a requirement in order to post in Loans/Investments

[avsterbone]

I am sick and tired of seeing bullshit posts of brand new users asking for loans/investments. You can argue "just ignore them" but it's still annoying. I think setting a minimum reaction count of 25 and message count of 20 before users are able to create there own threads in that section would reduce the bs by a lot.

SpigotMC does this with certain sections of there forums and it makes the environment a lot cleaner.

 

[SoldierAlex]

I've seen many, or users that have less than 10-20 posts making them.

Funny how that number goes down. Regardless, they don't ask for extremely large sums of money. I see lots of reasonable requests for money and I would fulfill them if I currently hadn't already loaned someone else.

Because they are pointless and aren't anything anyone would be interested in investing in, they are unfamiliar with how making servers work and don't know that you need to be unique and not be a generic factions server with nothing special about it.

I certainly don't see loans from new members as pointless. It's all about interacting with the user over Skype and getting to know them. I have done numerous successful deals with new members and I haven't been upset. You can't generalize a group and say they are all unfamiliar with running servers because you don't know their background. A lot have came from other forums where they have learned a lot about running servers. Regardless, you shouldn't limit them to using and making certain services.

Instead of leaving the thread for an unsuspecting user to get scammed, the smarter thing to do would be have someone managing those threads and can easily prevent that from even being seen by a user so they can't scam them.

You can't, however, drag out competition by claiming they have less posts and saying they will scam. You most certainly can't tell the future. Like I said, I've done numerous successful deals with new members.

SoldierAlex you do realize you are litterally the only member who has disagreed with this thread right?

Ik CSDouble disagreed too, but idc cause he's banned

I still stand by my opinion.