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Sharg

Thu 22nd Jun '00, 7:50pm

Hi,
it would be good to force a minimum words per post (not counting signature).

I just had a user who replied to 28 messages with crap stuff such as "Oh ya" "Not true" "I agree" "haha"......

And I would like to prevent this with a minimum words (characters ?) Admin function....

Benj

Martin

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 5:52am

ick

JimF

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 6:01am

lol

eva2000

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 6:14am

hehe...

hi jim, it's me singloon :D... it would be great to have such a feature, but you can't force people to say more than they want to or have to ....

bira

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 6:27am

I'll pass on such a feature to be honest. Sometimes someone just wants to say LOL! to a post. What's wrong with it?

Sharg

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 6:31am

yes, thats true, it may not be a good idea.
I was just upset by this user...

Benj

eva2000

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 6:50am

and i can imagine why too.. i have the complete opposite - members on my old board would at least write 20 - 40 lines of essay in their posts... very hard keeping up with them...

JimF

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 7:16am

Hey singloon/eva - whassup :)

I have the latter problem as well. My members will post a dissertation on a topic that only requires a "I agree". I don't know which is worse, a lot of tiny little posts, or fewer large and long posts.

If anything, there should be a filter for stupid topics... :p

Sharg

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 7:18am

More little posts= more page views and less space used :D

Benj

Craig Antill

Fri 23rd Jun '00, 7:21am

eva2000

Sat 24th Jun '00, 1:12am

Originally posted by Benj
More little posts= more page views and less space used :D

Benj true... my vbulletin went online yesterday and with only 3 members we managed to rack up 240 posts and 2,400 pageviews in one day :eek:

mmoncur

Sat 24th Jun '00, 6:23pm

What it comes down to is this: If you have a user that has nothing to say but "blah", and you require a minimum of 10 words per post, it's just going to make him say "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah" instead.

Might as well save the disk space.

NgtCrwlr

Mon 26th Jun '00, 6:37pm

After having an admin go awol and start his own BBS and switching from UBB to vB. The two combined has basically put our BBS traffic at an all time low.

Send all those one line posters to us. We'll welcome them with open arms. Hell tell em I might even pay them to post one liners. Can you tell I'm a bit upset!

NgtCrwlr
- goes to meet the Devil about selling his soul.