Quote:
I'm not sure... One possible way to go, litterally, is to have a "Have you read the faq or any relevant thread?" page shown when unregistered guests and whatnots are about to post a new one. Thing is, that some guests have a question that is hard for them to find the answer to, due to little or no computer know-how (they just want to play...), and maybe even too little knowledge of English. They would need a taylored answer, perhaps? Letting unregistered users out of the forums would probably lead to less usage leading to less registered users. I'm not sure about all this, but I'm pretty sure there are better ways of dealing with and avoiding "unwieldy" topics.
[/b]
|
That's pretty much what has been suggested
here
Also, it has occurred several times this year that the GD forum had to be isolated for decontamination during several particularly nasty bot attacks.
While number of new posts plummetted to almost nothing, it was so silent that after a few days I almost missed the spambots.