Understand the 5 minute wait time and think its something people just need to live with when joining but why is there also a wait on searches? That one I do not understand because people will tend to search once,not find what they wanted,attempt a second search and see they have to wait. So they post or they give up.
Curious why that one is needed.
Topic: Easier newbie integration - page 2. (Read 1340 times)
plus i dont think the bot farmers have automatic captcha recognition, i think they manually sign up and then let the bots do the work. I doubt the longer captchas would have any effect. and if a newcomer to the forum is genuinly interested in bitcoin, I don't think they would mind the 360 timer. i know i didnt mind it at all because i knew once my rank goes up itll go down
Thats a pretty harsh filter. Sure a newbie can just buy many Hero member accounts and do the same thing for sig campaign.
However when there is a huge influx of real newbies everytime a major news article comes out, thousands of newbies come to this forum.
In my opinion, it is a soft one. The cases in which one would have to post twice within 6 minutes is very rare. Most people, aside from spammers, usually do not do this anyways.However when there is a huge influx of real newbies everytime a major news article comes out, thousands of newbies come to this forum.
And if they cant use it, they will just leave, perhaps quit bitcoin as well.
Having to wait 6 minutes between posts != not being able to use it. 
The first things that come to my mind are:
More spam, more account farming. Without a way of dealing with these problems, I disagree with the idea.
More spam, more account farming. Without a way of dealing with these problems, I disagree with the idea.
If the timer is reduced to 60 seconds,5 new useless threads will be created in the span of 5 minutes.Where with the current settings only 1 thread is possible.
Thats a pretty harsh filter.
Sure a newbie can just buy many Hero member accounts and do the same thing for sig campaign.
However when there is a huge influx of real newbies everytime a major news article comes out, thousands of newbies come to this forum.
And if they cant use it, they will just leave, perhaps quit bitcoin as well.
We need to capture the newbie waves, not to scare them away. No other forum on the internet has 6 minute posting interval, so I`m sure there are other ways to eliminate spam.
That's hypothetical.On what grounds?
More newbies stay and they remain interested in the forum and bitcoin. Then the forum banner impression count will go up. And then people will bid more on the forum ad auctions, because the advertising system is bigger.
1) Less spambots
If the timer is reduced to 60 seconds,5 new useless threads will be created in the span of 5 minutes.Where with the current settings only 1 thread is possible.
2) More newbies, bigger community
More spam.If a newbie really wishes to be a part of community,they will not mind the time factor either way.
3) Bigger ad revenue for the forum, since newbies will be more engaged, stay longer on the forum, and click on more ads
That's hypothetical.On what grounds?
The first things that come to my mind are:
More spam, more account farming. Without a way of dealing with these problems, I disagree with the idea.
More spam, more account farming. Without a way of dealing with these problems, I disagree with the idea.
Hello I have a few sugestions how to make it easier for newbies to integrate in the forum. First of all the newbie post timer is just horrible. They have to wait 6 minutes between posts, i`m sure this drives away many people. If one newbie just asks here a question, and then wants to reply he has to wait an awful lot amount of time. Of course there are spammers and bots too with newbie accounts, so we need a better filter system to differentiate the honest newbies from the spambots.
So these are my suggestions:
1) Reduce the newbie post timer to 60 seconds instead of 360
2) Configure or change the registration captcha to one that has more characters, if its possible to configure it like that.
Expected results:
1) Less spambots
2) More newbies, bigger community
3) Bigger ad revenue for the forum, since newbies will be more engaged, stay longer on the forum, and click on more ads
So these are my suggestions:
1) Reduce the newbie post timer to 60 seconds instead of 360
2) Configure or change the registration captcha to one that has more characters, if its possible to configure it like that.
Expected results:
1) Less spambots
2) More newbies, bigger community
3) Bigger ad revenue for the forum, since newbies will be more engaged, stay longer on the forum, and click on more ads
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