Re: OOT. Time for a change.
 

Most good threads don't start off (OP) as a good thread.

Re: OOT. Time for a change.
 

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How about banning threadstarting abilities only for bad threadstarters? Is that possible with the current software?

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we would never get any lunch threads then [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: OOT. Time for a change.
 

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I'll agree that I don't think *'s are removed liberally enough.

Some people deserve them for a long time...many people don't. I had to wait 3 months to get mine taken off for one stupid thread I made, even though the rest of my posts were fine.

Having it on for so long may really discourage alot of good posters from posting in OOT.

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i was a scared to post in OOT while i had my *

Re: OOT. Time for a change.
 

I'm sad to see the * system go. When I first stumbled across OOT, and read about it, I thought it was a genius way to moderate a forum and generate higher quality. I've probably culled back starting a thread or two that might have been ok, but I doubt I would have even paid attention to this forum if not for the * system. It's my guess that if you don't come up with something similar, I'll get to be one of those people who say that OOT used to be better back in the day, only i'll be dead on right.

Hopefully a new system will come up that will work just fine, although I kind of hope that the *s come back, perhaps with some of the adjustments people have mentioned in this thread.