Even though i am new, i havn't double posted, or any of that other stuff but i guess thats mainly because i am in A LOT of forums.
But one thing i do notice, is even the people who do, nothing really happens, they sort of have their post deleted or the topic locked, and get told, "Don't do that" and i know that you can get warned, but warnings don't seem to get anywhere...

I have an idea, which unlike DVDV's (even though it is pretty funny and i have seen it before) won't be annoying and stuff like that...
I have set up forums before, and i don't know how this one is exactly, but when someone makes an account, and they fill in their information:

Username*
Password*
Confirm Password*
Email*
M/F
Are you a bot*
etc.

You could add check boxes, (default is not checked) that HAVE TO BE FILLED IN TO CONTINUE asking stuff like:

Will you not smiley spam?*
Will you not double post?*
Will you not create duplicate or unnecessary topics?*
Will you not argue with mods, or undermine what they say?*

stuff like that, not having it all in one checkbox question, but lots of them. So instead of reading the first, and going yeah whateva *tick* *submit*, they have to go through them all, or at least spend the time checking them all, therefor hopefully reading at least 2 of them.

Even though i am new, i havn't double posted, or any of that other stuff but i guess thats mainly because i am in A LOT of forums.
But one thing i do notice, is even the people who do, nothing really happens, they sort of have their post deleted or the topic locked, and get told, "Don't do that" and i know that you can get warned, but warnings don't seem to get anywhere...

I have an idea, which unlike DVDV's (even though it is pretty funny and i have seen it before) won't be annoying and stuff like that...
I have set up forums before, and i don't know how this one is exactly, but when someone makes an account, and they fill in their information:

Username*
Password*
Confirm Password*
Email*
M/F
Are you a bot*
etc.

You could add check boxes, (default is not checked) that HAVE TO BE FILLED IN TO CONTINUE asking stuff like:

Will you not smiley spam?*
Will you not double post?*
Will you not create duplicate or unnecessary topics?*
Will you not argue with mods, or undermine what they say?*

stuff like that, not having it all in one checkbox question, but lots of them. So instead of reading the first, and going yeah whateva *tick* *submit*, they have to go through them all, or at least spend the time checking them all, therefor hopefully reading at least 2 of them.

It's because they're all 11 and 12 and don't know how a forum works.

And they're stupid too.

Lol, 11 and 12 year-olds


Maybe you could have questions in the registration saying something like,
"Finish this exert from rule #4: DO NOT _______!"
"What does rule ten tell us to do? ___________"
And make it so that you have to finish it to register.

And have a lot, possibly even all the rules or at least a general area of them.

And newcomers nowadays don't know the meaning of double posting

I wasn't refering to you,you were better than most of the newcomers

Well I guess they'll just have to suck it up
most newcomers don't stay anyways