spam stopping idea

[Gabe]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

As mentioned earlier (I think,) this would be difficult for rookie teams. I have been in Chief for a few years now, but this new team that I am on is a whole bunch of students who have never seen Chief. If they have a quick question to ask but have never used CD before, then they are kind of out of luck and would have to ask someone else to use their account. Then that post would not count toward their 'good posts', and the next time they have a problem it would be the same situation.

Just looking at it from this way (and BTW, you guys are really good about handling spammers,)

Jacob

I like this idea and would like to extend it a little to the Word Association thread. Have a every new member post on the association thread. When they post that one time they also have to include in parantheses () why they chose the word that they did. Assuming that the answer is satisfactory, they are free to post as they wish. But by giving a series of tasks that require a human to do, you might be able to reduce the amount of spam a little more.

[Cuog]

How about asking what does FIRST stand for. Thats abstract enough that a bot would have to be specifically written to invade these forums